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Published  by  Authority  of  the  Senate  and  House 
of  Representatives. 


Compiled  and  Edited  by 

KRIO  JOHNSON, 

Formerly  Chief  Clerk  or  the  House  of  Representatives. 


LINCOLN: 

JACOB  NORTH  &  CO.,  PRINTERS. 

1897. 


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ENTERED  ACfORDINO  TO  ACT  OF  CONGREB8  IN  THE  YEAR  1S97. 

BY   EHIC   JOHNSON,   WAHOO,  NEBR. 

JN   TUE   OFFICE   OF   THE   LIBRARIAN   OF  CONGRESS,   AT  WASHINGTON.   D.  0. 


PREFACE. 


The  very  favorable  reception  and  commendation  accorded  the  first  edi- 
tion of  the  Legislative  Hand  Book  and  Manual  of  1893,  and  the  specific 
endorsement  by  the  Legislature  of  1897,  which  by  resolution  ordered  a  new 
edition  of  my  compilation,  is  the  reason  for  the  publication  of  this  second 
edition. 

Election  returns  and  other  valuable  information  have  been  compiled  and 
revised  up  to  date.  Pains  have  been  talien  to  make  the  Legislative  Hand 
Book  as  near  accurate  as  is  possible.  ERIC  JOHNSON. 

Wahoo.  Nkb..  1897. 


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TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 


PAGE. 

1.  Declaration  of  Independence  of  the  United  States 1 

2.  Signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence .1 

3.  Constitution  of  the  United  States 5 

5.  Organic  Act 19 

6.  Enabling  Act 25 

7.  Constitution  of  the  State  of  Nebraslia 28 

8.  Statutory  Provisions,  Relating  to  the  Legislature 54 

9.  Decisions  of  the  Supreme  court  on  Legislative  Matters 59 

10.  Decisions  of  the  House  of  Representatives GI 

11.  Manual  of  Parliamentary  Practice 65 

12.  A  Chapter  on  Legislative  Practice 76 

13.  Standing  Rules  of  the  Senate .'. 84 

14.  Rules  of  the  House  of  Representatives 91 

15.  Joint  Rules  of  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives 98 

16.  Apportionment,  Congressional  and  Legislative 100 

17.  State  and  Territorial  Government 106 

18.  Senators  from  Nebraska  since  the  admission  of  the  State  into 

the  Union 106 

19.  Delegates  to  Congress  from  the  Territory  of  Nebraska 106 

20.  Representatives  in  Congress  since  the  admission  of  the  State 

into  the  Union 106 

21.  Governors  of  the  State 106 

22.  Lieutenant  Governors 106 

23.  Secretaries  of  State 107 

24.  Auditors 107 

25.  Treasurers - 107 

26.  Attorney  Generals 107 

27.  Superintendents  of  Public  Instruction 107 

28.  Commissioners  of  Public  Lands  and  Buildings 107 

29.  Chief  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court 108 

30.  Associate  Justices  and  Judges 108 

31.  Clerks  of  the  Supreme  Court 108 

32.  Reporters  of  the  Supreme  Court 108 

33      Librarians iOg 

34.  Presidents  of  th*  Territorial  Council 108 

35.  Presidents  of  the  Senate  of  the  State  of  Nebraska 108 

36.  Speakers  of  the  Territorial  House  of  Representatives 109 

37.  Speakers  of    the  House  of    Representatives  of    the  State  of 
Nebraska 109 

88.    Chief  clerks  of  the  Territorial  Council 109 

39.  Secretaries  of  the  Senate  of  the  State  of  Nebraska... 110 

40.  Chief  Clerks  of  the  Territorial  House  of  Representatives 110 

41.  Chief  Clerks  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the  State  of 
Nebraska „ 110 


42.  Marshal  B  of  the  United  States Ill 

43.  Members  of  the  Nebraska  Council  and  Senate 111-114 

44.  Members  of  the  House  of  Representatives 114-123 

45.  Presidental  Electors 123-124 

46.  Popular  and  Electoral  Vote  for  President  and  Vice  President.. ..125-128 

47.  Vote  cast  for  President  in  Nebraska  since  the  admission  of  the 
State 129 

48.  Popular  vote  for  Members  of  Congress  since  1855 129-131 

49.  Popular  vote  for  Governor  since  1866 132 

50.  Vote  for  Member  of  Congress  in  Ist  congressional  district 133 

51.  Vote  for  Governor,  Lieutenant  Governor,  Secretary  of   State, 

and  Auditor  of  Public  Accounts,  18132 134-137 

52.  Vote  for  Treasurer,  Attorney  General,  -Commissioner  of  Public 
Lands  and  Buildings  and  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction, 

1892 138-141 

53.  Vote  for  Congressman,  Fourth  District 142-145 

54.  Vote  for  Congressman,  Fifth  District 142-145 

55.  Vote  for  Congressman,  Sixth  District 142-145 

56.  Vote  for  amendment  to  Constitution  relative  to  Executive 
Officers 142-145 

57.  Vote  for  amendment  to  Constitution  relative  to  Permanent 
School  Fund 143-145 

58.  Vote  for  Congressman,  First  District 146 

59.  Vote  for  Congressman,  Second  District 146 

60.  Vote  for  Congressman,  Third  District 146 

61.  Vote  for  Supreme  Judge,  1891 147-148 

62.  Vote  for  Regents  State  University,  1891 147-148 

63.  Vote  on  amendment  to  Constitution  relative  to  Prohibition 149-150 

64.  Vote  on  amendment  to  Constitution  relative  to  increase  of 
Judges 149-150 

65.  Vote  on  amendment  to  Constitution  relative  to  increase  of 
Salary 149-150 

66.  Popular  vote  for  Governor,  1894-96 151 

67.  Popular  vote  for  Members  of  Congress,  1894-90 151 

68.  Vote  for  Judge  of  Supreme  Court  and  Regents  of  University, 

1893 152-155 

69.  Vote  for  Governor,  Lieutenant  Governor,  Secretary  of  State, 

and  Auditor  of  Public  Accounts,  1894 156-159 

70.  Vote  for  Treasurer,  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  At- 
torney General,  and  Commissioner  of  Public  Lands  and  Build- 
ings  160-163 

71.  Vote  for  Members  of  Congress,  First  and  Second  Districts 164 

72.  Vote  for  Members  of  Congress,  Third  and  Fourth  Districts 165 

73.  Vote  for  Members  of  Congress,  Fifth  and  Sixth  Districts 166 

74.  Vote  for  Judge  of  Supreme  Court,  1895 167-168 

75.  Vote  for  Regents  of  University,  1895 169-170 

76.  Vote  for  Governor  and  Lieutenant  Governor,  1896 171-172 

77.  Vote  for  Secretary  of  State  and  Auditor  of  Public  Accounts,1896.173-174 

78.  Vote  for  Treasurer  and   Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 

1896 175-176 

79.  Vote  for  Attorney  General  and  Commissioner  of  Public  Accounts 

1896 177-178 

80.  Vote  for  Regents  of  University  1896 179-180 

81.  Vote  on  Amendment  to  the  Constitution  relating  to  the  number 

of  Judges  of  the  Supreme  Court,  etc 179-180 


82.  Vote  for  Members  of  Congress  in  First  and  Second  Districts.lSOG        181 

83.  Vote  for  Members  of  Congress  in  Third  and  Fourth  Districts....        182 

84.  Vote  for  Members  of  Congress  in  Fifth  and  Sixth  Districts 183 

85.  Keport  of  Joint  Committee  on  Recount  of  the  Ballots  on  the 
Constitutional  Amendment  relating  to  Judges  of  the  Supreme 
Court  in  1896 184-186 

86.  Officers  of  the  Senate  Twenty-third  session,  1803 187 

87.  Members  of  the  Senate  Twenty -third  session,  1893 188 

88.  Officers  of  the  House  Twenty-third  session,  1893 189 

80.  Members  of  the  House  Twenty-third  session,  1893 190-192 

90.  Officers  of  the  Senate  Twenty-fourth  session.  1895 193 

91.  M-^mbers  of  the  Senate  Twenty-fourth  session,  1805 194 

92.  Officers  of  the  House  Twenty-fourth  session,  1895 195 

93.  Members  of  the  House  Twenty-fourth  session,  1895 196-198 

94.  Appointive  Officers  of  the  House 199 

95.  Officers  of  the  Senate  Twenty-fifth  session,  1897 200 

D6.  Members  of  the  Senate  Twenty-fifth  session,  1897 201 

97.  Officers  of  the  House  Twenty-fifth  session,  1897 202 

9S.  Members  of  the  House  Twenty-flfth  session,  1897 203-205 

99.  State  Government  and  Executive  Departments 206-207 

100.  State  Boards  and  Assistants 208-209 

101.  Nebraska  National  Guards 210 

102.  State  Institutions 211-212 

103.  State  Associations 213-214 

104.  University  of  Nebraska 215-220 


THE  DECLARATION  OF  INDEPENDENCE 
In  Congress,  July  4th,  1776. 
—The  Unanimous  Declaration  of  the  Thirteen  United  States  of  America: 

When,  in  the  course  of  human  events,  it  becomes  necessary  tor  one 
people  to  dissolve  the  i)olitical  bands  which  have  connected  them  with 
another,  and  to  assume  among  the  powers  of  the  earth  the  separate  an  1 
equal  station  to  which  tlie  lawsof  nature  and  of  nature's  God  entitle  them, 
a  decent  respect  to  the  opinions  of  mankind  requires  that  they  shoi;ld  de- 
chire  the  causes  which  impel  them  to  the  separation. 

We  hold  these  .truths  to  be  self-evident,  that  all  men  are  created  equal; 
that  they  are  endowed  by  their  Creator  with  certain  unalienable  rights; 
that  among  these  are  life,  liberty,  and  the  pursuit  of  happiness.  That,  to 
secure  these  rights,  governments  are  instituted  among  men,  deriving  their 
just  powers  from  the  consent  of  the  governed;  that,  whenever  any  form 
of  government  becomes  destructive  of  tliese  ends,  it  is  the  right  of  the 
lieople  to  alter  or  abolish  it,  and  to  institute  a  new  government,  laying 
its  foundation  on  sucli  principles,  and  organizing  its  powers  in  such  form 
as  to  them  shall  seem  most  likely  to  effect  their  safet}--  and  happiness. 
Prudence,  indeed,  will  dictate  that  governments  long  established  should 
not  be  clianged  for  light  and  tran.sient  causes;  and,  accordingly,  all  ex- 
perience hatii  shown  that  mankind  are  more  disposed  to  sutler,  while 
evils  are  sufterable,  than  to  right  themselves  by  abolishing  the  forms  to 
which  they  are  accustomed.  But  when  a  long  train  of  abuses  and  unsur- 
pations,  pursuing  invariably  the  same  object,  evinces  a  design  to  reduce 
them  under  absolute  despotism,  it  is  their  right,  it  is  their  duty,  to  throw 
oir  such  government  and  to  provide  new  guards  for  their  future  security. 

'^uch  has  been  the  patient  sutferance  of  these  colonies,  and  such  is  now 
the  necessity  which  constrains  them  to  alter  their  former  systems  of  gov- 
ernment. The  history  of  the  present  king  of  Great  Britain  is  a  history  of 
repeated  injuries  and  usurpations,  all  having  in  direct  object  the  estab- 
lishment of  an  absolute  tyranny  over  these  states.  To  prove  this,  let 
facts  be  submitted  to  a  candid  world: 

He  has  refused  his  assent  to  laws  the  most  wholesome  and  necessary 
for  the  public  good. 

He  has  forbidden  his  governors  to  pass  laws  of  immediate  and  pressing 
importance,  unless  suspended  in  their  operations  till  his  assent  should  be 
obtained,  and,  when  so  suspended,  he  has  utterly  neglected  to  attend  to 
them. 

He  has  refused  to  pass  other  laws  for  the  accommodation  of  large  dis- 
tricts of  people,  unless  those  people  would  relinquish  the  right  of  repre- 
sentation in  the  legislature,  a  right  inestimable  to  them,  arid  formidable 
to  tyrants  only. 

He  has  called  together  legislative  bodies  at  places  unusual,  uncomfort- 
able, and  distant  from  the  depository  of  their  public  records,  for  the  sole 
jjurpose  of  fatiguing  them  into  compliance  with  his  measures. 

He  has  dissolved  representative  houses  repeatedly,  for  opposing  with 
manly  firmness  his  invasions  on  the  rights  of  the  people. 

He  has  refused,  for  a  long  time  after  such  dissolutions,  to  cause  others 
to  be  elected,  whereby  the  legislative  powers,  incapable  of  annihilation, 
have  returned  to  the  people  at  large  for  their  exercise,  the  state  remain- 
ing in  the  meantime  exposed  to  all  the  dangers  of  invasion  from  without 
and  convulsions  within. 

He  has  endeavored  to  prevent  the  population  of  these  states,  for  that 
purpose  obstructing  the  laws  for  the  naturalization  of  foreigners,  refus- 
ing to  jtass  others  to  encourage  their  migration  hither,  and  raising  the 
conditions  of  new  appropriations  of  lands. 

He  has  obstructed  the  admiraistration  of  justice  by  refusing  his  assent 
to  laws  for  establishing  judiciary  poAvers. 


DECLABATION  OF  INDEPENDENCE. 


He  has  made  judges  dependent  on  his  will  alone  for  the  teniire  of  their 
offices,  and  the  amount  and  payment  of  their  salaries. 

He  has  erected  a  multitude  of  new  offices  and  sent  hither  swarms  of  of- 
ficers to  harass  our  people  and  eat  out  their  substance. 

He  has  kept  among  us,  in  times  of  peace,  standing  armies,  without  the 
consent  of  our  legislature. 

He  has  effected  to  render  the  military  independent  of  and  superior  to 
the  civil  power. 

He  has  combined  with  others  to  subject  us  to  a  jurisdiction  foreign  to 
our  constitution  and  unacknowledged  by  our  laws,  giving  his  assent  to 
their  acts  of  pretended  legislation. 

For  quartering  large  bodies  of  armed  troops  among  us. 

For  protecting  them,  by  a  mock  trial,  from  punishment  for  any  murders 
which  they  should  commit  on  the  inhabitants  of  these  states. 

For  cutting  off  our  trade  with  all  parts  of  the  world. 

For  imposing  taxes  on  us  without  our  consent. 

For  depriving  us,  in  many  cases,  of  the  benefit  of  trial  by  jury.  | 

For  transporting  us  beyond  seas  to  be  tried  for  pretended  offences. 

For  abolishing  the  free  system  of  English  laws'in  a  neighboring  province, 
establishing  therein  an  arbitrary  government,  and  enlarging  its  boun- 
daries so  as  to  render  it  at  once  an  example  and  fit  instrument  for  intro- 
ducing the  same  absolute  rule  into  these  colonies. 

For  taking  away  our  charters,  abolishing  our  most  valuable  laws,  and 
altering,  fundamentally,  the  powers  of  our  governments. 

For  suspending  our  own  legislatures,  and  declaring  themselves  in- 
vested with  power  to  legislate  for  us  in  all  cases  whatsoever. 

He  has  abdicated  government  here  by  declaring  us  out  of  his  protec- 
tion, and  waging  war  against  us. 

He  has  plundered  our  seas,  ravaged  our  coasts,  burnt  our  towns,  and 
destroyed  the  lives  of  our  people. 

He  is,  at  this  time,  transporting  large  armies  of  foreign  mercenaries  to 
complete  the  works  of  death,  desolation,  and  tyranny  already  begun, 
with  circumstances  of  cruelty  and  perfidy  scarcely  paralled  in  the  most 
barbarous  ages,  and  totally  unworthy  the  head  of  a  civilized  nation. 

He  has  constrained  our  fellow  citizens,  taken  captive  on  the  high  seas, 
to  bear  arms  against  their  country,  to  become  the  executioners  of  their 
friends  and  brethern,  or  to  fall  themselves  by  their  hands. 

He  has  excited  domestic  insurrections  amongst  us,  and  has  endeavored 
to  bring  on  the  inhabitants  of  our  frontier  the  merciless  Indian  savages, 
whose  known  rule  of  warfare  is  an  undistinguished  destruction  of  all 
ages,  sexes,  and  conditions. 

In  every  stage  of  these  oppressions  we  have  petitioned  for  redress  in 
the  most  humble  terms.  Our  repeated  petitions  have  been  answered  only 
by  repeated  injury.  A  prince  whose  character  is  thus  marked  by  every 
act  which  may  define  a  tyrant,  is  unfit  to  be  the  ruler  of  a  free  people. 

Nor  have  we  been  Avanting  in  attentions  to  our  British  brethren.  We 
have  warned  them  from  time  to  time  of  attempts  made  by  their  legisla- 
ture to  extend  an  unwarrantable  jurisdiction  over  us.  We  have  reminded 
them  of  the  circumstances  of  our  emigration  and  settlement  here.  We 
have  appealed  to  their  native  justice  and  magnanimity,  and  we  have 
conjured  them  by  the  ties  of  our  common  kindred,  to  disavow  these  usur- 
pations, which  would  inevitably  interrupt  our  connections  and  corres- 
pondence. They,  too,  have  been  deaf  to  the  voice  of  justice  and  consan- 
guinity. We  must,  therefore,  acquiesce  in  the  necessity  which  denounces 
our  seperation,  and  hold  them,  as  we  hold  the  rest  of  mankind,  enemies 
in  war;  in  peace,  friends. 

We,  therefore,  the  representatives  of  the  United  States  of  America  in 
General  Congress  assembled,  appealing  to  the  Supreme  Judge  of  the 
world  for  the  rectitude  of  our  intentions,  do,  in  the  name  and  by  the  au- 
thority of  the  good  people  of  these  colonies,  solemnly  publish  and  de- 
clare, That  these  United  Colonies  are,  and  of  right  ought  to  be,  Free 
AND  Independent  States;  that  they  are  absolved  from  all  allegiance  to 
%he  British  crown,  and  that  all  political  connection  between  them  and 
the  state  of  Great  Britain  is,  and  ought  to  be,  totally  dissolved;  and  that 
as  Free  and  Independent  States,  they  have  full  power  to  levy  war,  con- 
clude peace,  contract  alliances,  establish  commerce,  and  do  all  other  acts 
and  things  which  Independent  States  may  of  right  do.  And  for  the 
support  oi  this  declaration,  with  firm  reliance  on  the  protection  of  De- 
vine  Providence,  we  mutually  pledge  to  each  other  our  lives,  our  for- 
tunes, and  our  sacred  honor. 


DECLARATION  OF  INDEPENDENCE. 


The  foregoing  declaration  was, 
signed  by  the  following  members. 

Xeir  Jfantpsihire. 
JOSIAH  15ARTLETT, 
WILLIAM  WHIPPLE, 
MATTHEW  THORNTON. 

Rhode  Island. 
STEPHEN  HOPKINS, 
WILLIAM  ELLERY. 

Connecticut. 
ROGER  SHERMAN, 
SAMUEL  HUNTINGTON, 
WILLIAM  WILLIAMS, 
OLIVER  WOLCOT. 

New  York. 
WILLIAM  FLOYD, 
PHILIP  LIVINGSTON, 
FRANCIS  LEWIS, 
LEWIS  MORRIS. 

New  Jersey. 
RICHARD  STOCKTON, 
JOHN  WITHERSPOON, 
FRANCIS  HOPKINSON, 
JOHN  HART, 
ABRAHAM  CLARK. 

Pennsylvania. 
ROBERT  MORRIS, 
BENJAMIN  RUSH, 
BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN, 
JOHN  MORTON, 
GEORGE  CLYMER, 
JAMES  SMITH, 
GEORGE  TAYLOR, 
JAMES  WILSON, 
GEORGE  ROSS. 


by  order  of  congress,  engrossed   and 
JOHN  HANCOCK. 
Massachusetts. 

SAMUEL  ADAMS, 

JOHN  ADAMS, 

ROBERT  TREAT  PAYNE, 

ELDRIDGE  GERRY. 
Delaware. 

CESAR  RODNEY, 

GEORGE  READ, 

THOMAS  M'KEAN. 
Marylaiid. 

SAMUEL  CHASE, 

WILLIAM  PACA, 

THOMAS  STONE, 

CHAS.  CARROLL,  of  Carrollton. 
Virginia. 

GEORGE  WYTHE, 

RICHARD  HENRY  LEE, 

THOMAS  JEFFERSON, 

BENJAMIN  HARRISON, 

THOMAS  NELSON,  Jr. 

FRANCIS  LIGHTFOOT  LEE, 

CARTER  BRAXTON. 
North  Carolina. 

WILLIAM  HOOPER, 

JOSEPH  HEWS, 

JOHN  PENN. 
South  Carolina. 

EDWARD  RUTLEDGE, 

THOMAS  HEYWARD,  Jr., 

THOMAS  LYNCH,  Jr., 

ARTHUR  MIDDLETON. 
Georgia. 

BUTTON  GWINNETT, 

LYMAN  HALL, 

GEORGE  WALTON. 


DKCLAEATION  OP  INDEPENDBNCB. 


SIGNERS  OF  T 

NAME. 

HE  DECLARATION  0 

FROM  COLONY. 

FINDEPENDE 

OCCUPATION. 

NCE. 
Born. 

Died. 

Josiah  Bartlett 

William  Whipple 

New  Hampsnire 

New  Hampshire 

New  Hampshire 

Massachusetts  Bay... 
Massachusetts  Bay . . . 
Massachusetts  Bay . . . 
Massachusetts  Bay . . . 
Massachusetts  Bay.   . 

Rhode  1  sland 

Rhode  Island  

Connecticut         

Physician 

Sailor 

1729 
1730 
1714 
1737 
1735 
1722 
1731 

1744 
1707 
1727 
1721 
1731 
1726 
1734 
1716 
1713 
1726 
1730 
1722 
1731 
1708 
1726 
1733 
1746 
1706 
1724 
1739 
1719 
1716 
1742 
1730 
1730 
1733 
1734 
1741 
1743 
1740 
1737 
1726 
1732 
1743 
1740 
1738 
1734 
1736 
1742 
1730 
1741 
1749 
1746 
1749 
1743 
1732 
1725 
1740 

1795 

1785 

Matthew  Thornton . . . 

John  Hancock 

John  Adams        

Physician 

Merchant 

Lawyer 

Merchant 

Lawyer 

Merchant 

Farmer 

Lawyer 

Shoemaker.... 

Lawyer 

Statesman 

Soldier  

Farmer 

Merchant 

Merchant 

Farmer 

Lawyer 

Educator 

Lawyer 

Farmer 

Lawyer 

Merchant 

Physician 

Printer 

Surveyor 

Merchant 

Lawyer 

Foundry  man.. 

Lawyer 

Lawyer 

General 

Lawyer 

Lawyer 

Lawyer 

Lawyer 

Lawyer 

Lawyer 

Lawyer 

Statesman 

1803 
1793 
1826 

Snmnpl  Adams  . 

1803 

Robert  T.  Payne 

Eldridge  Gerry 

Stephen  Hopkins 

William  EUery 

Roger  Sherman 

Samuel  Huntington. . 
William  Williams.... 

Oliver  Wolcott 

William  Floyd 

Philip  Livingston 

1814 
1814 
1785 
1820 
1793 

1796 

Connecticut        

1797 

1821 

New  York         

1778 

New  York 

1803 

Lewis  Morris 

New  York    

1798 

Richard  Stockton 

New  Jersey  •           .... 

1781 

John  Witherspoon.... 
Francis  Hopkinson... 

1794 

1796 

1780 

1794 

Robert  Morris 

Pennsylvania 

1806 

Benjamin  Rush 

Benjamin  Franklin.. . 

1813 

Pennsylvania 

1790 

Pennsylvania 

1777 

George  Clymer 

tames  Smith 

Pennsylvania  

Pennsylvania    . 

1813 
1806 

George  Taylor 

James  Wilson 

1781 

Pennsylvania 

1798 

Geor'^e  Ross 

Pennsylvania        .  . 

1779 

C"fi?sar  Rodney 

(icortj^e  Reed 

1783 

Delaware 

1798 

Thomas  McKean 

Delaware 

1817 
1811 

Thomas  Stone 

.Maryland     

1787 

William  Paca. . . 

1799 

Charles  Carroll 

Maryland 

1832 

Virginia 

Virginia 

1806 

Richard  Henry  Lee.. . 

1794 

Lawyer 

Farmer 

Statesman 

1826 

Benjamin  Harrison.. . 
Thomas  Nelson  Jr 

Virginia 

1791 

Virginia 

1789 

Francis  L  Lee 

Virginia 

Farmer 

Planter 

Lawyer 

Merchant 

Lawyer 

Lawyer 

Lawyer 

Lawyer 

Planter 

Merchant 

Physicia.n 

Lawyer 

1797 

Carter  Braxton    . 

Virginia 

1777 

illiam  Hooper 

North  Carolina 

1790 

Joseph  Hewes. 

North  Carolina 

North  Carolina 

South  Carolina 

South  Carolina 

South  Carolina 

South  Carolina 

1779 

1788 

Edward  Rutledge 

Thomas  Heyward  Jr.. 

Thomas  Lvnch  Jr 

Arthur  .Middleton 

1800 
1809 
1779 

1787 

Button  (iwinnett 

Ge<^)rgia       

1777 

Lyman  Hall 

Georgia          .  ... 

1790 

George  Walton 

Georgia  

1804 

CONSTITUTION  OP  THB  UNITED' STATBS." 


CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  UNITJ-.D  STA-SflSS  OF  A:!HESa:t!A» 

PREAMBLE. 
We,  the  people  of  the  United  States,  in  order  to  form  a  more  perfect 
union,  establish  justice,  insure  domestic  tranquility,  provide  for  the  com- 
mon defense,  promote  the  general  welfare,  and  secure   the  blessings  of 
liberty  to  ourselves  and  our  posterity,  do  ordain  and  establish  this  Con- 
stitution for  the  United  States  of  America. 
ARTICLE  I. 
Of  the  liegislative  Power. 
Section  I.    All  legislative  power  herein  granted  shall  be  vested  in  s 
Congress  of  the  United  States,  which  shall  consist  of  a  Senate  and  Housa 
of  Representatives. 

Of  the  House  of  Representatives. 

Sec.  II.    1.    The  House  of  Representatives  shall  be  composed  of  mem  - 

bers  chosen  every  second  year  by  the  people  of  the  several  states;  and  the 

electors  in  each  state  shall  have  the  qualifications  requisite  for  electors 

of  the  most  numerous  branch  of  the  state  legislature. 

Qualifications  of  Members. 

2.  No  person  shall  be  a  represenative  who  shall  not  have  attained  the 
age  of  twenty-five  years  and  been  seven  years  a  citizen  of  the  United 
States,  and  who  shall  not,  when  elected,  be  an  inhabitant  of  that  state  in 
which  he  shall  be  chosen. 

Apportionment  of  Representatives  and  Direct  Taxes— Census. 

3.  Representatives  and  direct  taxes  shall  be  apportioned  among  the 
several  states  which  maybe  included  within  this  Union  according  to  their 
respective  numbers,  which  shall  be  determined  by  adding  to  the  whole 
number  of  free  persons,  including  those  bound  to  service  for  a  term  of 
years  and  excluding  Indians  not  taxed,  three-fifths  of  all  other  persons. 
The  actual  enumeration  shall  be  made  within  three  years  after  the  first 
meeting  of  the  Congress  of  the  United  States,  and  within  every  subsequent 
term  of  ten  years,  in  such  manner  as  they  shall  by  law  direct.  The  num- 
ber of  representatives  shall  not  exceed  one  for  every  thirty  thousand,  but 
each  state  shall  have  at  least  one  representative;  and  until  such  enumera- 
tion shall  be  made,  the  state  of  New  Hampshire  shall  be  entitled  to  choose 
three;  Massachusetts,  eight;  Rhode  Island  and  Providence  Plantations, 
one;  Connecticut,  five;  New  York,  six;  New  Jersey,  four;  Penny Ivania, 
eight;  Delaware,  one;  Maryland,  six;  Virginia,  ten;  North  Carolina,  five; 
South  Carolina,  five;  and  Georgia,  three. 

Vacancies. 

4.  When  vacancies  happen  in  the  representation  from  any  state,  the 
executive  authority  thereof  shall  issue  writs  of  election  to  fill  such  vacan- 
cies. 

Of  Their  Officers — Impeachment. 

5.  The  house  of  representatives  shall  choose  their  speaker  and  other 
officers,  and  shall  have  the  sole  power  of  impeachment. 

Of  the  Senate. 
Sec.III.     1.    The  senate  of  the  United  States  shall  be  composed  of  two 
senators  from  each  state,  chosen  by  the  legislature  thereof,  for  six  years 
and  each  senator  shall  have  one  vote. 

Tlieir  Classes— Vacancies. 
2.    Immediately  after  they  shall  be  assembled,  in  consequence  of  tha 
first  election,  they  shall  be  divide  1  as  equally  as  maybe  into  three  classes 


CONSTITtrrfOl*  bp  THE  UNITED  STATES. 


Thfe  yeatVo^  t^-ro*  saiator&'af.tfao  fii?s*,c^a,ss  shall  be  vacated  at  the  expira- 
tion of  the  second  year,  of  the  second  class  at  the  expiration  of  the  fourth 
year,  and  of  the  third  class  at  the  expiration  of  the  sixth  year,  so  that 
one-third  may  be  chosen  every  second  year ;  and  if  vacancies  happen,  by 
resignation  or  otherwise,  during  the  recess  of  the  legislature  of  any  state, 
the  executive  thereof  may  make  temporary  appointments  until  the  next 
meeting  of  the  legislature,  which  shall  then  fill  such  vacancies. 
Qualification  of  Senators. 

3.  No  person  shall  be  a  senator  who  shall  not  have  attained  to  the  age 
of  thirty  years  and  been  nine  years  a  citizen  of  the  United  States,  and 
who  shall  not,  when  elected,  be  an  inhabitant  of  that  state  for  which  he 
shall  be  chosen. 

Of  the  Vice  President. 

4.  The  vice-president  of  the  United  States  shall  be  president  of  the  sen- 
ate, but  shall  have  no  vote  unless  they  be  equally  divided. 

Of  the  Officers  of  the  Senate. 

5.  The  senate  shall  choos3  their  other  officers,  and  also  a  president 
pro  tempore  in  the  absence  of  the  vice-president,  or  when  he  shall  exercise 
the  office  of  president  of  the  United  States. 

Of  Impeachment. 

6.  The  senate  shall  have  the  sole  power  to  try  all  impeachments.  When 
sitting  for  that  purpose  they  shall  be  on  oath  or  affirmation.  When  the 
president  of  the  United  States  is  tried  the  chief  justice  shall  preside,  and 
no  person  shall  be  convicted  without  the  concurrence  of  two-thirds  of  the 
members  present. 

Judgment  in  Cases  of. 

7.  Judgment  in  cases  of  impeachment  shall  not  extend  further  than  to 
removal  from  office  and  disqualification  to  hold  and  enjoy  any  office  of 
honor,  trust,  or  profit  under  the  United  States;  but  the  party  convicted 
.shall,  nevertheless,  be  liable  and  subject  to  indictment,  trial,  judgment 
and  punishment,  according  to  law. 

Manner  of  Electing  Members  of  Congress. 
Sec.  IV.    1.    The  times,  places,  and  manner  of  holding  elections  for 
senators  and  representatives  shall   be  prescribed  in  each  state  by  the 
legislature  thereof,  but  the  congress  may  at  any  time,  by  laAV,  make  or 
alter  such  regulations,  except  as  to  the  i)lacos  of  choosing  senators. 
Of  the  Meeting  of  Congress. 
2.    The  congress  shall  assemble  at  least  once  in  every  year,  and  such 
meeting  shall  be  on  the  first  Monday  in  December,  unless  they  shall  by 
law  appoint  a  different  day. 

Powers  of  Each  House. 
Sec.  5.  1.  Each  house  shall  be  the  judge  of  elections,  returns,  and 
qiialifications  of  its  own  members,  and  a  majority  of  each  shall  constitute 
a  quorum  to  do  business;  but  a  smaller  number  may  adjourn  from  day  to 
day,  and  may  be  authorized  to  compel  the  attendance  of  absent  members, 
in  such  manner  and  under  such  penalities  as  each  house  may  provide. 
Expulsion. 

2.  Each  house  may  determine  the  rules  of  its  proceedings,  punish  its 
members  for  disorderly  behavior,  and,  with  the  concurrence  of  two-tliirds 
expel  a  member. 

Journals  and  Yeas  and  Nays. 

3.  Each  house  shall  keep  a  journal  of  its  proceedings,  and  from 
time  to  time  publish  the  same,  excepting  such  parts  as  may,  in  their 


CONSTITUTION  OP  THE  UNITED  STATES. 


judgment,  require  secrecy ;  and  the  yeas  and  nays  of  the  members  of 
either  house,  on  any  question,  shall,  at  the  desire  of  one-fifth  of  those 
present,  be  entered  on  the  journal. 

Of  Adjournment. 

4.  Neither  house,  during  the  session  of  congress,  shall,  without  the  con- 
sent of  the  other,  adjourn  for  more  than  three  days,  nor  to  any  other 
place  than  in  which  the  two  houses  shall  be  sitting. 

Compensation,  Privileges  and  Incapacities  of  Members. 

Sec,  VI.  1.  The  senators  and  representatives  shall  receive  a  compen- 
sation for  their  services,  to  be  ascertained  by  law,  and  paid  out  of  the 
treasury  of  the  United  States.  They  shall,  in  all  eases,  except  treason, 
felony,  and  breach  of  the  peace,  be  privileged  from  arrest,  during  their 
attendance  at  the  session  of  their  respective  houses,  and  in  going  to  or 
returning  from  the  same ;  and  for  any  speech  or  debate  in  either  house 
they  shall  not  be  questioned  in  any  other  place. 
Exclusion  from  Office. 

2.  No  senator  or  representative  shall,  during  the  time  for  which  he 
was  elected,  be  appointed  to  any  civil  office,  under  the  authority  of  the 
United  States,  which  shall  have  been  created,  or  the  emoluments  where- 
of shall  have  been  increased,  during  such  time,  and  no  person  holding 
any  office  under  the  United  States  shall  be  a  member  of  either  house 
during  his  continuance  in  office. 

Revenue  Bills. 

Sec.  VII.  1.  All  bills  for  raising  revenue  shall  originate  in  the  house 
of  representatives,  but  the  senate  may  propose  or  concur  with  amend- 
ments as  on  other  bills. 

Manner  of  Passing  Bills,  etc. 

2.  Every  bill  which  shall  have  passed  the  house  of  representatives  and 
the  senate  shall,  before  it  becomes  a  law,  be  presented  to  the  president  of 
the  United  States;  if  he  approves,  he  shall  sign  it;  but  if  not,  he  shall  re- 
turn it,  with  his  objections,  to  that  house  in  which  it  shall  have  origin- 
ated, who  shall  enter  the  objections  at  large  on  their  journal,  and  pro- 
ceed to  reconsider  it.  If,  after  such  reconsideration,  two-thirds  of  that 
house  shall  agrea  to  pass  the  bill,  it  shall  be  sent,  together  with  the  objec- 
tions, to  the  other  house,  by  which  it  shall  likewise  be  reconsidered,  and 
if  approved  by  two-thirds  of  that  house,  it  shall  become  a  law.  But,  in 
all  such  cases,  the  votes  of  both  houses  shall  be  determined  by  yeas  and 
nays;  and  the  names  of  the  persons  voting  for  and  against  the  bill,  shall 
be  entered  on  the  journal  of  each  house  respectively.  If  any  bill  shall 
not  be  returned  by  the  president  within  ten  days,  (Sunday  excepted), 
after  it  shall  have  been  presented  to  him,  the  same  shall  be  a  law,  in  like 
manner  as  if  he  had  signed  it,  unless  the  congress,  by  their  adjournment, 
prevents  its  return;  in  which  case  it  shall  not  be  a  law. 

Orders,  Resolutions  and  Votes. 

3.  Every  order,  resolution,  or  vote,  to  which  the  concurrence  of  the 
senate  and  house  of  representatives  may  be  necessary  (except  on  a  ques- 
tion of  adjournment),  shall  be  presented  to  the  president  of  the  United 
States;  and  before  the  same  shall  take  effect  shall  be  approved  by  him,  or 
being  disapproved  by  him,  shall  be  repassed  by  two-thirds  of  the  senate 
and  house  of  representatives,  according  to  the  rules  and  limitations  pre- 
scribed in  the  case  of  a  bill. 


8  CONSTITUTION  OF  TttE  TjNif ED  STAfES. 

General  Power  of  Congress — Taxes,  Duties  Imports,  Uniformity. 

Sec.  VIII.    The  congress  shall  have  power— 

1.  To  lay  and  collect  taxes,  duties,  imposts,  and  excises;  to  pay  the 
debts,  and  to  provide  for  the  common  defense  and  general  welfare  of  the 
United  States;  but  all  duties,  imposts,';and  excises  shall  be  uniform 
throughout  the  United  States. 

Borrow  Money. 

2.  To  borrow  money  on  the  credit  of  the  United  States. 

Commerce. 

3.  To  regulate  commerce  with  foreign  nations,  and  among  the  several 
states,  and  with  the  Indian  tribes. 

Naturalization — Bankruptcy. 

4.  To  establish  an  uniform  rule  of  naturalization,  »nd  uniform  laws  on 
the  subject  of  bankruptcies  thoughout  the  United  States. 

Money,  Wtights  and  Measures. 

5.  To  coin  money,  regulate  the  value  thereof,  and  of  foreign  coin,  and 
fix  the  standard  of  weights  and  measures. 

Counterfeiting. 

6.  To  provide  for  the  punishment  of  counterfeiting  the  securities  and 
current  coin  of  the  United  States. 

Post    Offices. 

7.  To  establish  post-offices  and  post  roads. 

Authors— Inventors. 

8.  To  promote  the  progress  of  science  and  useful  arts  by  securing,  for 
limited  times  to  authors  and  inventors,  the  exclusive  right  to  their  re- 
spective writings  and  discoveries. 

Inferior  Tribunals. 

9.  To  constitute  tribunals  inferior  to  the  supreme  court. 

Piracies — Offences. 

10.  To  define  and  punish  piracies  and  felonies  committed  on  the  high 
seas,  and  offenses  against  the  law  of  nations. 

War— Marque  and  Reprisals. 

11.  To  declare  war,  grant  letters  of  marque  and  reprisal,  and  make 
rules  concerning  captures  on  land  and  water. 

Armies. 
.    12.    To  raise  and  support  armies ;  but  no  appropriation  of  money  to 
that  use  shall  be  for  a  longer  term  than  two  years. 

Navy. 

13.  To  provide  and  maintain  a  navy. 

Rules  for  Land  and  Naval  Forces. 

14.  To  make  rules  for  the  government  and  regulation  of  the  land  and 
naval  forces. 

Calling  out  Militia. 

15.  To  provide  for  calling  forth  the  militia  to  execute  the  laws  of  the 
Union,  suppress  insurrections,  and  repel  invasions. 

Organizing,  Arming  and  Disciplining  Militia. 

16.  To  provide  for  organizing,  arming,  and  disciplining  the  militia, 
and  for  governing  such  part  of  them  as  may  be  employed  in  the  service 
of  the  United  States,  reserving  to  the  states  respectively  the  appointment 
of  the  otticers,  and  the  authority  of  training  the  militia  according  to  the 
discipline  prescribed  by  congress. 

Exclusive  Legislation  over  Seat  of  Government— Forts,  etc. 

17.  To  exercise  exclusive  legislation  in  all  cases  whatsoever  over  such 


CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES. 


district  (not  exceeding  ten  miles  square)  as  may,  by  session  of  particular 
states,  and  the  acceptance  of  congress,  become  the  seat  of  government  of 
the  United  States,  and  to  exercise  like  authority  over  all  places  purchased 
by  the  consent  of  the  legislature  of  the  state  in  which  the  same  shall  be, 
for  the  erections  of  forts,  magazines,  arsenals,  dock-yards,  and  other 
needful  buildings. 

Power  Given  to  Enforce  Constitution. 

18.  To  make  all  laws  which  shall  be  necessary  and  proper  for  carrying 
into  execution  the  foregoing  powers,  and  all  other  powers  vested  by  this 
constitution  in  the  government  of  the  United  States,  or  in  any  depart- 
ment or  officer  thereof. 

I^imitation  of  Power— Migration  of  Slaves. 

Sec.  IX.  1.  The  migration  or  importation  of  such  persons  as  any  of 
the  states  now  existing  shall  think  proper  to  admit  shall  not  be  prohib- 
ited by  the  congress  prior  to  the  year  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and 
eight,  but  a  tax  on  duty  may  be  imposed  on  such  importation,  not  exceed- 
ing ten  dollars  for  such  person. 

Habeas  Corpus. 

3.  The  privilege  of  the  writ  of  habeas  corpus  shall  not  be  suspended, 
unless  when,  in  cases  of  rebellion  or  invasion,  the  public  safety  may  re- 
quire it. 

Attainder— Ex-Post  Facto. 

3.  No  bill  of  attainder  or  ex-post  facto  law  shall  be  passed. 

Capitation — Taxes. 

4.  No  capitation  or  other  direct  tax  shall  be  laid  unless  in  proportion 
to  the  census  or  enumeration  hereinbefore  directed  to  be  ^aken. 

Exports. 

5.  No  tax  or  duty  shall  be  laid  on  articles  exported  from  any  state. 
No  preference  shall  be  given  by  any  regulation  of  commerce  or  revenue 
to  the  ports  of  one  state  over  thosa  of  another ;  nor  shall  vessels  bound  to 
or  from  one  state  be  obliged  to  enter  clear,  or  pay  duties  in  another. 

Money,  how  Draw^n  From  the  Treasury. 

6.  No  money  shall  be  drawn  from  the  treasury  but  in  consequence  of 

appropriations  made  by  law;  and  a  regular  statement  and  account  of  the 

receipts  and  expenditures  of  all  public  money  shall  be  published  from 

time  to  time. 

Nobility— Presents— Offices. 

7.  No  title  of  nobility  shall  be  granted  by  the  United  States,  and  no 
person  holding  any  office  of  profit  or  trust  under  them  shall,  without  the 
consent  of  the  congress,  accept  any  present,  emolument,  office,  or  title  of 
any  kind  whatever,  from  any  king,  prince,  or  foreign  state. 

Liimitations  of  the  Powers  of  Individual  States. 

Skc.  X.  1.  No  state  shall  enter  into  any  treaty,  alliance  or  confeder- 
ation;  grant  letters  of  marque  and  reprisal,  coin  money;  emit  bilA  of 
credit;  make  anything  but  gold  and  silver  coin  a  tender  in  payment  of 
debts;  pass  any  bills  of  attainder,  ex-post  facto  law,  or  law  impairing  the 
obligation  of  contracts,  or  grant  any  title  of  nobility. 

Powers  of  States,  Consent  of  Congress,  when  Necessary, 

2.  No  state  shall,  without  the  consent  of  congress,  lay  any  imposts  or 
duties  on  imports  or  exports,  except  what  may  be  absolutely  necessary 
for  executing  its  inspection  laws;  and  the  net  produce  of  all  duties  and 
imposts  laid  by  any  state  on  imports  or  exports  shall  be  for  the  use  of  the 
treasury  of  the  United  States,  and  all  such  laws  shall  be  subject  to  the 


10  CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES. 

revision  and  control  of  congress.  No  state  shall,  without  the  consent  of 
congress,  lay  any  duty  of  tonnage,  keep  troops  or  ships  of  war  in  time  of 
peace,  enter  into  any  agreement  or  compact  with  another  state,  or  with 
a  foreign  power,  or  engage  in  war.  unless  actually  invaded,  or  in  such 
imminent  danger  as  will  not  admit  of  delay. 

ARTICLE  II. 

Of  the  President— The  Executive  Power. 

Sec.  1.  1.  The  executive  power  shall  be  vested  in  a  president  of  the 
United  States  of  America.  L  e  shall  hold  his  office  during  the  term  of 
four  years,  and  together  with  the  vice-president,  chosen  for  the  same 
term,  be  elected  as  follows: 

Manner  of  Electing. 

2.  Each  state  shall  appoint  in  such  manner  as  the  legislature  thereof 
may  direct,  a  number  of  electors,  equal  to  the  whole  number  of  senators 
and  representatives  to  which  the  state  may  be  entitled  in  the  congress, 
but  no  senator  or  representative,  or  person  holding  an  office  of  trust  or 
profit  under  the  United  States,  shall  be  appointed  an  elector. 

Time  of  Meeting  of  Electors,  and  Manner  of  Voting. 

3.  (12th  Amendment).  The  electors  shall  meet  in  their  respective 
states  and  vote  by  ballot,  for  president  and  vice  president,  one  of  whom, 
at  least  shall  not  be  an  inhabitant  of  the  same  state  with  themselves; 
They  shall  name  in  their  ballot  the  person  voted  for  as  president,  and  in 
distinct  ballots,  the  person  voted  for  as  vice-president,  and  they  shall 
make  distinct  lists  of  all  persons  voted  for  as  president,  and  of  all  per- 
sons voted  for  as  vice-president,  and  of  the  number  of  votes  for  each, 
which  lists  they  shall  sign  and  certify,  and  transmit  sealed  to  the  seat  Of 
government  of  the  United  States  directed  to  the  president  of  the  senate; 
the  president  of  the  senate  shall,  in  the  presence  of  the  senate  and  house 
of  rei)resentatives,  open  all  the  certificates,  and  the  votes  shall  then  be 
counted;  the  person  having  the  greatest  number  of  votes  for  i)resident 
shall  be  the  president,  if  such  number  be  a  majoity  of  the  whole  num- 
ber of  electors  appointed ;  and  if  no  person  have  such  a  majority,  then 
from  the  persons  having  the  highest  number  not  exceeding  three,  on  the 
list  (i  those  voted  for  as  president,  the  house  of  representatives  shall 
choose  immediately,  by  ballot,  the  president.  But,  in  choosing  the  pres- 
ident, the  votes  shall  be  taken  by  states,  the  representatives  from  each 
state  having  one  vote;  a  quorum  for  this  purpose  shall  consist  of  a  mem- 
ber or  members  from  two-thirds  of  the  states,  and  a  majority  of  all  the 
states  shall  be  necessary  to  a  choice.  And  if  the  house  of  representatives 
shall  not  choose  a  president,  whenever  the  right  of  choice  shall  devolve 
upon  them,  before  the  fourth  day  of  March,  next  following,  then  the 
vice-president  shall  act  as  president,  as  in  the  case  of  the  death  or  other 
constitutional  disability  of  the  president. 

The  person  having  the  greatest  number  of  votes  as  vice-president  shall 
be  the  vice-president,  if  such  number  be  a  majority  of  the  whole  number 
of  electors  appointed;  and  if  no  person  have  a  majority,  then  from  the 
two  highest  numbers  on  the  list  the  senate  shall  choose  the  vice-presi- 
dent; a  quorum  for  that  purpose  shall  consist  of  two-thirds  of  the  whole 
number  of  senators,  and  a  majority  of  the  whole  number  shall  be  neces- 
sary to  a  choice. 


CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES.  11 

But  no  person  constitutionally  ineligible  to  the  office  of  president  shall 
be  eligible  to  that  of  vice-president  of  the  United  States. 
Time  of  Choosiag:  Electors. 

4.  The  congress  may  determine  the  time  of  choosing  the  electors,  and 
the  day  on  which  they  shall  give  their  votes,  which  day  shall  be  the 
same  throughout  the  United  States. 

Who  May  be  Elected  President. 

5.  No  person  except  a  natural  born  citizen,  or  a  citizen  of  the  United 
States  at  the  time  of  the  adoption  of  this  constitution,  shall  be  eligible 
to  the  office  of  president,  neither  shall  any  person  be  eligible  to  that  of- 
fice who  shall  not  have  attained  to  the  age  of  thirty-five  years,  and  been 
fourteen  j'ears  a  resident  within  the  United  States. 

In  Case  of  Removal  etc.,  of  the  President,  his  Powers  to  Devolve 
Upon  the  Vice-President,  etc. 

1.  In  case  of  the  removal  of  the  president  from  office,  or  of  his  death, 
resignation  or  inability  to  discharge  the  powers  and  duties  of  the  said  of- 
fice, the  same  shall  devolve  on  ths  vice-president,  and  the  congress  may, 
bylaw,  provide  for  the  case  of  removal,  death,  resignation  or  inability, 
both  of  the  president  and  vice-president,  declaring  what  officer  shall 
then  act  as  president,  and  such  officer  shall  act  accordingly,  until  the 
disability  be  remoA'^ed  or  a  president  shall  be  elected. 

President's  Compensation. 

7.  The  president  shall,  at  stated  times,  receive  for  his  services  a  com- 
pensation which  shall  neither  be  increased  nor  diminished  during  the 
period  for  which  he  shall  have  been  elected,  and  he  shall  not  receive 
during  that  period  any  other  emolument  from  the  United  States  or  any 
of  them. 

His  Oath. 

8.  Before  he  enters  on  the  execution  of  his  office  he  shall  take  the  fol- 
lowing oath  or  affirmation : 

"I  do  solemnly  swear  (or  affirm)  that  I  will  faithfully  execute  the  office 
of  president  of  the  United  States,  and  will,  to  the  best  of  my  ability,  pre- 
serve, protect,  and  defend  the  constitution  of  the  United  States." 
Power  and  Duties. 

Sec.  II.  1.  The  president  shall  be  commander-in-chief  of  the  army 
and  navy  of  the  United  States,  and  of  the  militia  of  the  several  states 
when  called  into  the  actual  service  of  the  United  States.  He  may  require 
the  opinion  in  writing  of  the  principal  officer  in  each  of  the  executive 
departments,  upon  any  subject  relating  to  the  duties  of  their  respective 
offices;  and  he  shall  have  power  to  grant  reprieves  and  pardons  for  of- 
fenses against  the  United  States,  except  in  cases  of  impeachment. 
Of  Malcing  Treaties— Appointments. 

2.  He  shall  have  power,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the 
senate,  to  make  treaties,  provided  two-thirds  of  the  senators  present  con- 
cur; and  he  shall  nominate,  and  by  and  with  the  consent  of  the 
senate,  shall  appoint  ambassadors,  other  public  ministers  and  consuls, 
judges  of  the  supreme  court,  and  all  other  officers  of  the  United  States 
whose  appointments  are  not  herein  otherwise  provided  for,  and  which 
shall  be  established  by  law.  But  the  congress  may,  by  law,  vest  the  ap- 
appointment  of  such  inferior  officers  as  they  think  proper  in  the  presi- 
dent alone,  in  the  courts  of  law,  or  in  the  heads  of  departments. 


12  CONSTITTTION  OF  THE   UNITED  STATES, 


Power  of  Appointment. 

3.  The  president  shall  have  power  to  fill  up  all  vacancies  that  may 
hai)pen  during  the  recess  of  the  senate,  by  granting  commissions,  which 
shall  expire  at  the  end  of  their  next  session. 

Further  PoAvers  and  Duties. 

Sec.  III.  1.  He  shall  from  time  to  time  give  to  the  congress  informa- 
tion of  the  state  of  the  Union,  and  recommend  to  their  consideration  such 
measures  as  he  shall  judge  necessary  and  expedient,  lie  may,  on  extra- 
ordinary occasions,  convene  both  hovtsos  or  either  of  them,  and  in  case 
of  disagreement  between  them,  with  respect  to  the  time  of  adjournment 
he  may  adjourn  them  to  such  time  as  he  may  think  proper.  He  shall 
receive  ambassadors  and  other  public  ministers.  He  shall  take  care 
that  the  laws  be  faithfully  executed;  and  shall  commission  all  the  of- 
licers  of  the  United  States. 

Of  laipeachinents. 

Sec.  IV.  1  The  president,  vice-president  and  all  civil  officers  of  the 
United  States,  shall  be  removed  from  office  on  impeachment  for,  and 
conviction  of,  treason,  briber »,  or  other  high  crimes  and  misdemeanors. 

ARTICLE  III. 

OF  THE  JUDICIARY. 

Of  the  Judicial  Power— Concerning  the  Judges 

Sec.  1.  1.  The  judicial  power  of  the  United  States  shall  be  vested  in 
one  supreme  court,  and  in  such  inferior  courts  as  the  congress  may  from 
time  to  time  ordain  and  establish. 

The  judges,  both  of  the  supreme  and  inferior  courts,  shall  hold  their 
offices  during  good  behavior,  and  shall,  at  stated  times,  receive  for  their 
si'rvices  a  compensation,  which  shall  not  be  diminished  during  their  con- 
tinuance in  office. 

Extent    of    the  Judicial  Power— This  Clause  Alters   Portea— See 
Amendment  Art.  XI.  That  Follows: 

Sec.  II.  1.  The  judicial  power  shall  extend  to  all  cases  in  law  and 
equity  arising  under  this  constitution,  the  laws  of  the  United  States,  and 
treaties  made,  or  which  shall  be  made,  under  their  authority;  to  all  cases 
affecting  ambassadors,  or  other  public  ministers  and  consuls ;  to  all  cases 
of  admiralty  and  maritime  jurisdiction;  to  controversies  to  which  the 
United  States  shall  be  a  party;  to  controversies  between  two  or  more 
states,  between  a  state  and  citizens  of  another  state ;  between  citizens  of 
different  states;  between  citizens  of  the  same  state,  claiming  land  under 
grants  of  different  states,  and  between  a  state  or  the  citizens  thereof  and 
foreign  states,  citizens,  or  subjects. 

Of  Original  and  Appellate  Jurisdiction  of  tlie  Supreme  Court. 

2.  In  all  cases  affecting  ambassadors,  or  other  i)ublic  ministers  or  con- 
suls, and  those  in  which  a  state  shall  be  a  party,  the  snpreme  court  shall 
have  original  jurisdiction.  In  all  the  other  cases  before  mentioned,  the 
supreme  court  .^hall  have  appellate  jurisdiction,  both  as  to  law  and  fact, 

vith  such  exceptions  and  under  such  regulations  as  the   congress  shall 
nake. 

Of  Trials  for  Crimes. 

3.  The  trial  of  all  crimes,  except  in  cases  of  impeachment,  shall  be  by  a 
ury;  and  such  trial  shall  be  held  In  the  state  where  the  said  crimes  shall 


CONSTITTTION  OF  THE  UNIIED  tl    TES. 


have  been  committed;  but  when  not  committed  within  any  state,  the 
trial  shall  be  at  such  place  or  places  as  the  congress  may  by  law  have 
directed. 

Of  the  Judicial  Poiver. 
(Amendment  Art,  XI).    The  judicial  power  of  the  United  States  shall 

not  be  construed  to  extend  to  any  suit  in  law  or  in  equity,   commenced 
or  prosecuted  against  one  of  the  United  States  by  citizens  of  another 
state,  or  by  citizens  or  subjects  of  any  foreign  state. 
Of  Treason. 

Sec.  III.  1.  Treason  against  the  United  States  shall  consist  only  in 
levying  war  against  them,  or  in  adhering  to  their  enemies;  giving  them 
aid  and  comfort.  No  person  shall  be  convicted  of  treason,  unless  on  the 
testimony  of  two  witnesses  to  the  same  overt  act,  or  on  confession  in  open 
court. 

Punishment  of  Treason. 

2.  The  congress  shall  have  power  to  declare  the  punishment  of  treason  ; 
but  no  attainder  of  treason  shall  work  corruption  of  blood  or  forfeiture, 
except  during  the  life  of  the  person  attained. 


ARTICLE    IV. 
Of  State  Records. 

Sec.  I.    1.    Full  faith  and  credit  shall  be  given  in  each  state  to  the  pub- 
lic acts,  records,  and  judicial  proceedings  of  every  olher  state.     And  the 
congress  may,  by  general  law,  prescribe  the  manner  in  which    such  acts, 
records,  and  proceedings  shall  be  proved,  and  effect  thereof. 
Of  Citizenship. 

Sec.  II.    1.    The  citizens  of  each  state  shall  be  entitled  to  all  privileges 
and  immunities  of  citizens  in  the  several  states. 
Fugitives  from  Justice. 

2.  A  person  charged  in  any  state  with  treason,  felony,  or  other  crime, 
who  shall  flee  from  justice,  and  be  found  in  another  state,  shall,  on  de- 
mand of  the  executive  authority  of  the  state  from  which  he  fled,  be  de- 
livered up,  to  be  removed  to  the  state  having  jurisdiction  of  the  crime. 

Of  Persons  held  to  Service. 

3.  No  person  held  to  service  or  labor  in  one  state,  under  the  laws  there- 
of, escaping  into  another,  shall,  in  consequence  of  any  law  or  regulation 
therein,  be  discharged  from  such  service  or  labor;  but  shall  be  delivered 
up  on  claim  of  the  party  to  whom  such  service  or  labor  may  be  due. 

Admission  of  New  States. 
Sec.  III.    1.    New  states  may  be  admitted  by   the   congress   into   this 
Union,  but  no  new  state  shall  be  formed  or  erected  within  the  jurisdic- 
tion of  any  other  state,  nor  any  state  be  formed  by  the  junction  of  two 
or  more  stales,  or  parts  of  states,  without  the  consent  of  the  legislatures 
of  the  states  concerned,  as  well  as  of  the  congress. 
Property— Claims. 
2.    The  congress  shall  have  power  to  dispose  of,  and  make  all  needful 
rules  and  regulations  respecting  the  territory  of  other  property  belonging 


14  CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES. 

to  the  United  States;  and  nothing  in  this  constitution  shall  be  so  con- 
strued as  to  prejudice  any  claims  of  the  United  States,  or  of  any  particu- 
lar state. 

Republican  Form  of  Government  Guaranteed. 
S  c.  IV.  1.  The  United  States  shall  guarantee  to  every  state  in  this 
Union  a  republican  form  of  government,  and  shall  protect  each  of  them 
against  invasion ;  and  on  application  of  the  legislature,  or  of  the  execu- 
tive (when  the  legislature  can  not  be  convened),  against  domestic  vio- 
lence. 

ARTICLE  V. 

Of  Amendments  to  the  Constitution. 

1.  The  congress,  whenever  two- thirds  of  both  houses  shall  deem  it 
necessary,  shall  propose  amendments  to  this  constitution ;  or  on  the  appli- 
cation of  the  legislatures  of  two-thirds  of  the  several  states,  shall  call  a 
convention  for  proposing  amendments,  which,  in  either  case,  shall  be  valid, 
to  all  intents  and  purposes,  as  part  of  this  constitution,  when  ratified  by 
the  legislatures  of  three-fourths  of  the  several  states,  or  by  conventions  in 
three-fourths  thereof,  as  the  one  or  the  other  mode  of  ratification  may  be 
proposed  by  the  congress;  Provided,  That  no  amendment  which  be  made 
prior  to  the  year  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  eight,  shall  in  any  man- 
ner aflfect  the  first  and  fourth  clauses  in  the  ninth  section  of  the  first  arti- 
cle ;  and  that  no  state,  without  its  consent,  shall  be  deprived  of  its  equal 
suffrage  in  the  senate. 

ARTICLE  VI. 

Of  Public  Debt. 

Sec.  I.    All   debts  contracted,  and  engagements   entered  into,  before 
the  adoption  of  this  constitution,  shall  be  as  valid  against  the  United 
States,  under  this  constitution,  as  under  the  confederation. 
Tlie  Supreme  Liaw  of  the  Land. 

Sec.  II.  This  constitution,  and  the  laws  of  the  United  States  which 
shall  be  made  in  pursuance  thereof,  and  all  treaties  made,  or  which  shall 
be  made  under  the  authority  of  the  United  States,  shall  be  the  supreme 
law  of  the  land,  and  the  judges  in  every  state  shall  be  bound  thereby;  any- 
thing in  the  constitution  or  laws  of  any  state  to  the  contrary  notwith- 
standing. 

Constitutional  Oath— No  Religious  Test. 

Sec.  III.  The  senators  and  representatives,  before  mentioned,  and 
the  members  of  the  several  state  legislatures,  and  all  executive  and  judi- 
cial officers,  both  of  the  United  States  and  of  the  several  states,  shall  be 
bound  by  oath  or  affirmation  to  support  this  constitution;  but  no  religious 
test  shall  ever  be  required  as  a  qualification  to  any  office  or  public  trust 
under  the  United  States. 

ARTICLE  VII. 

The  ratification  of  the  conventions  of  nine  states  shall  be  sufficient  for 
the  establishment  of  this  constitution  between  the  states  so  ratifying  the 


Done  in  convention,  by  the  unanimous  consent  of  the  states  present,  ihe 
seventeenth  day  of  September,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand 
seven  hundred  and  eighty-seven,  and  of  the  independence  of  the 
United  States  of  Aroeyica,  the  twelfth.  ; 


AMENDMENTS  TO  THE  CONSTITUTION. 


In  witness  whereof,  we  have  hereunto  subscribed  our  nsitne^.' 

GEORGE  WASHINGTON,    ' 
President  and  Deputy  from  VirQiina. 

New  Hampshire.  Massachtisctts:         '"" 

JOHNLANGDON,  NATHANIEL  GORMAN,         '-u 

NICHOLAS  GILMAN.  RUFUS  KING, 

Connecticut.  JOHN  DICKINSON, 

WILLIAM  SAMUEL  JOHNSON,  RICHARD  BASSETT, 

ROGiiR  SHERMAN.  JACOB  BROOM.  .  ■ 

New  York.  Maryland.  ,    -•, 

ALEXANDER  HAMILTON.  JAMES  M'HE>4RY, 

New  Jersey.  DANIEL  OF  ST.  TIIO.  JENIFER, 

WILLIAM  LIVINGSTON,  DANIEL  CARROLL.  --^ 

DAVID  BREARLEY,  Virginia.  ,   < 

WILLIAM  PATTERSON,  JOHN  BLAIR,  '  " 

JONATHAN  DAYTON.  JAMES  MADISON,  Jr.  ■ 

Pennsylvania.  North  Carolina. 

BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN,  WILLIAM  BLOUNT, 

THOMAS  MIFFLIN,  RICHARDS  DOBBS  SPAIGHT, 

ROBERT  MORRIS,  HUGH  WILLIAMSON. 

GEORGE  CLYMER,  South  Carolina. 

THOMAS  FITZIMMONS,  JOHN  RUTLEDGE, 

JARED  INGERSOLL,  CHAS.   COTESWORTH  PINCKNEY, 

.TAMES  WILSON,  CHAS.  PINCKNEY, 

GOVERNEUR  MORRIS.  PIERCE  BUTLER. 

Delaware.  Georgia. 

GEORGE  REED,  WILLIAM  FEW, 

GUNNING  BEDFORD,  Jr.  ABRAHAM  BALDWIN. 

Attest:  WILLIAM  JACKSON,  Secretary. 
Note.  This  constitution  was  ratified  by  the  several  states  in  the  order 
and  dates  here  given,  viz:  Deleware,  December  7,  1787;  Pennsylvania, 
December  12,  1787:  New  Jersey,  December  18,  1787;  Georgia,  January  2, 
1788;  Connecticut,  January  9, 1788;  Massachusetts,  February  6,  1788;  Mary- 
land, Ajiril  28,  1788;  South  Carolina,  May  23,  1788;  New  Hampshire,  June 
21, 1788;  Virginia,  June  26,  1788;  New  York,  July  26, 1788;  North  Carolina, 
November  21, 1789;  Rhode  Island,  May  29, 1790. 


Amendments  to  the  Constitution. 

(The  first  ten  amendments  to  the  constitution  of  the  United  States  were 
proposed  to  the  legislatures  of  the  several  states  by  the  First  congress  on 
the  25th  of  September,  1789.  They  were  ratified  by  the  following  states 
and  the  notifications  of  the  ratification  by  the  governors  thereof  were  suc- 
cessively communicated  by  the  president  to  congress:  New  Jersey,  No- 
vember 20,  1789,  Marlyland,  December  19, 1789;  North  Carolina,  December 
22,  1789;  South  Carolina,  January  19,  1790;  New  Hampshire,  January  25, 
1790;  Delaware,  Januarv  28, 1790;  Pennsylvania,  March  10, 1790;  New  York 
March27, 1790;  Rhode  Island,  June  15,  1790;  Vermont,  November  3,  1791, 
and  Virginia,  December  15, 1791.) 

ARTICLE  I. 
Of  the  Right  of  Conscience— Freedom  of  the  Press. 
Congress  shall  make  no  law  respecting  the  establishment  of  religion,  or 
preventing  the  free  exercise  thereof;  or  abridging  the  freedom  of  speech, 
or  of  the  press ;  or  the  right  of  the  people  peaceably  to  assemble,  and  to 
petition  the  government  for  a  redress  of  grievances. 
ARTICLE  II. 
Of  the  Right  to  Bear  Arms. 
A  well  regulated  militia  being  necessary  to  the  security  of  a  free  state, 
the  right  of  the  people  to  keep  and  bear  arms  shall  not  be  infringed. 
ARTICLE  III. 
Of  Quartering  Troops. 
No  soldier  shall,  in  time  of  peace,  be  quartered  in  any  house  without  the 


16  AMENDMENTS  TO  THE  CONSTITUTION. 


consent  of  the  owner,  nor  in  time  of  war,  but  in  a  manner  to  be  pre- 

'jcribed  law. 

ARTICLE  IV. 

Of  the  Right  to  be  Secure  from  Search. 

The  right  of  the  people  to  be  secure  in  their  persons,  houses,  papers,  and 

effects,  against  unreasonable  searches  and  seizures,  shall  not  be  violated: 

and  no  warrants  shall  be  issued  but  upon  probable  cause,  supported  by 

oath  or  affirmation,  and  particularly  describing  the  place  to  be  searched, 

and  the  persons  or  things  to  be  seized. 

ARTICLE  V. 

Of  Indictment,  Punishment,  etc. 

No  person  shall  be  held  to  answer  for  a  capital,  or  otherwise  infamous 

crime,  unless  on  a  presentment  or  indictment  of  a  grand  jury,  except  in  a 

case  arising  in  the  land  or  naval  forces,  or  in  the  militia,  when  in  actual 

service,  in  time  of  war  or  public  danger;  nor  shall  any  person  bo  subject, 

for  the  same  offense,  to  be  twice  put  in  jeopardy  of  life  or  limb,  nor  shall 

be  compelled,  in  any  criminal  case,  to  be  a  witness  against  himself,  or  be 

deprived  of  life,  liberty  or  property,  without  due  process  of  law ;  nor  shall 

private  property  be  taken  for  public  use  without  just  compensation. 

ARTICLE  VI. 

Of  Trial  in  Criminal  Cases,  and  the  Rights  of  Defendant. 

In  all  Criminal  prosecutions  the  accused  shall  enjoy  the  right  to  a 

speedy  and  public  trial,  by  an  impartial  jury  of  the  state  and  district 

wherein  the  crime  shall  have  been  committed,  which  district  shall  have 

been  previously  ascertained  by  law,  and  to  be  informed  of  the  nature  and 

cause  of  the  accusation ;  to  be  confronted  with  the  witness  against  him ;  to 

have  compulsory  process  for  obtaining  witnesses  in  his  favor,  and  to  have 

the  assistance  of  counsel  for  his  defense. 

ARTICLE  VII. 

Of  Trial  in  Civil  Cases. 

In  suits  at  common  law,  where  the  value  in  controversy  shall  exceed 

twenty  dollars,  the  right  of  trial  by  jury  shall  be  preserved,  and  no  fact, 

tried  by  a  jury,  shall  be  otherwise  re-examined  in  any  court  of  the  United 

States  than  according  to  the  rules  of  the  common  law. 

ARTICLE  VIII. 

Of  Bail  and  Fines. 

Excessive  bail  shall  not  be  required,  nor  excessive  fines  imposfed,  noa 

cruel  or  unusual  punishments  inflicted. 

ARTICLE  IX. 

Of  Rights  Reserved. 

The  enumeration,  in  the  constitution,  of  certain  rights,  shall  not  becon- 

strued  to  deny  or  disparage  others  retained  by  the  people. 

ARTICLE  X. 

Of  Powers  Reserved  to  the  States. 

The  powers  not  delegated  to  the  United  States,  by  the  constitution,  nor 

prohibited  by  it  to  the  states,  are  reserved  to  the  states,  respectively,  or  to 

the  people. 

ARTICLE  XI. 

Of  the  Judicial  Power.    See  Article  3,  Section  2. 

(The  eleventh  amendment  was  proposed  to  the  legislatures  of  the  several 
states  by  the  Third  Congress,  on  tne  5th  of  September,  1794,  and  was  de- 
clared in  a  message  from  the  President  to  Congress  dated  the  8th  of  Jan- 
uary, 1798,  to  have  been  ratified  by  the  legislatures  of  three-fourths  of  the 
states) 


AMENDMENTS  TO  THE  CONSTITUTION. 


ARTICLE  XII. 

Maimer  of  Electing  the  President  and  Vice-President.    See  Article 

2,  Section  3. 

(The  twelfth  amendment  was  proposed  to  the  legislatures  of  the  several 
states  by  the  eighth  congress,  on  the  12th  day  of  December,  1803,  and  was 
declared  in  a  proclamation  of  the  Secretary  of  State,  dated  the  25th  of  Scd- 
tember,  1804,  to  have  been  ratified  by  the  legislatures  of  three-fourths  of 
the  states.) 

ARTICLE  XIII. 
Slavery  Prohibited. 

SEC.  I  Neither  slavery  nor  involuntary  servitude,  except  as  r 
punishment  for  crime,  whereof  the  party  shall  have  been  duly  convicted. 
shall  exist  within  the  United  States,  or  any  place  subject  to  their  jurisdic- 
diction. 

Congress  Given  the  Power  to  Enforce. 

Sec.  II.  Congress  shall  have  power  to  enforce  this  article  by  appropriate 
legislation, 

(The  thirteenth  amendment  was  proposed  to  the  legislatures  of  the  sev- 
eral states  by  the  thirty-eighth  congress,  on  the  first  of  February,  1865,  and 
was  declared  in  a  Proclamation  of  the  Secretarv  of  State,  dated  the  18th  of 
of  December,  1865  to  have  been  ratified  by  the  legislatures  of  twenty-seven 
of  the  thirty-six  states,  viz:  Illinois,  Rhode  Island,  Michigan,  Maryland, 
New  York,  West  Virginia,  Maine,  Kansas,  Massachusetts,,  Pennsylvania,' 
Virginia,  Ohio,  Missouri,  Nevada,  Indiana,  Louisiana,  Minnesota,  Wiscon- 
sin, Vermont,  Tennessee,  Arkansas,  Connecticut,  New  Hampshire,  South 
Carolina,  Alabama,  North  Carolina  and  Georgia.) 
ARTICLE  XIV. 
Citizenship  Defined. 

Src.  I.  All  persons  born  or  naturalized  in  tha  United  States,  and 
sul)joct  to  the  jurisdiction  thereof,  are  citizens  of  the  United  States  and  of 
the  state  wherein  they  reside,  l^o  state  shall  make  or  enforce  any  law 
which  shall  abridge  the  privileges  or  immunities  of  citizens  of  the  United 
States,  nor  shall  any  state  deprive  any  person  of  life,  liberty,  or  property, 
without  due  process  of  law;  nor  deny  to  any  person  within  its  jurisdiction 
the  equal  protection  of  the  laws. 

Apportionment  of  Representatives. 

Sec.  II.  Representatives  shall  be  apportioned  among  the  severa' 
states  according  to  their  respective  numbers,  counting  the  whole  number 
of  persons  in  each  state,  excluding  Indians  not  taxed.  But  when  the 
right  to  vote  at  any  election  for  the  choice  of  electors  for  president  ai  d 
vice-president  of  the  United  States,  representatives  in  congress,  the  execu- 
tive and  judicial  officers  of  a  state,  or  the  members  of  the  legislatures 
thereof,  is  denied  to  any  of  the  male  inhabitants  of  such  state,  being 
twenty-one  years  of  age,  and  citizens  of  the  United  States,  or  in  way 
abridged,  except  for  participation  in  rebellion,  or  other  crime,  the  basis  of 
representation  therein  shall  be  reduced  in  the  proportion  which  the  num- 
ber of  such  male  citizens  shall  bear  to  the  whole  number  of  male  citizens 
twenty  one  years  of  age  in  such  state. 

Of  Persons  Disqualified  From  Holding  Office  and  Removal  of  Dis- 
abilities. 

Sec.  III.  No  person  shall  be  a  senator  or  representative  in  congress,  or 
elector  of  president  and  vice-president,  or  hold  any  office,  civil  or  military, 
under  the  United  States,  or  under  any  state,  who,  having  previously  taken 
an  oath,  as  a  member  of  congress  or  as  an  ottlcer  of  tha  United  States,  or  as 
a  member  of  any  state  legislature,  or  as  an  executive  or  judicial  officer  of 


AMEtlDMENTS  TO  THE  CONST. TUTION. 


any  state,  to  support  the  constitution  of  the  United  States,  shall  have  en- 
gaged in  insurrection  or  rebellion  against  the  same,  or  given  aid  or  comfort 
to  the  enemies  thereof.  But  congress  may,  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  each 
house,  remove  such  disability. 

Of  Debts  of  the  United  States,  and  Debts  incurred  in  aid  of  Rebell- 
ions Prohibited. 

Sec.  IV.  The  validity  of  the  public  debt  of  the  United  States,  authorized 
by  law,  including  debts  incurred  for  payment  of  pensions  and  bounties 
for  services  in  suppressing  insurrection  or  rebellion,  shall  not  be  ques- 
tioned. But  neither  the  United  States  nor  any  state  shall  assume  or  pay 
any  debt  or  obligation  incurred  in  aid  of  insurrection  or  rebellion  against 
the  United  States,  or  any  claim  for  the  loss  or  emancipation  of  any  slave : 
but  all  such  debts,  obligations  and  claims  shall  be  held  illegal  and  void. 
Congress  Given  Power  to  Enforce. 

Sec.  V.  Congress  shall  have  power  to  enforce,  by  appropriate  legislation, 
the  provisions  of  this  article. 

(The  fourteenth  amendment  was  proposed  to  the  legislatures  of  the  sev- 
eral states  bv  the  thirtyninth  congress,  on  the  16th  day  of  June,  18G6.  On 
the  21st  of  July  1^08,  congress  adopted  and  transmitted  to  the  department 
of  state  a  concurrent  resolution,  declaring  that  "the  legislatures  of  the 
states  of  Conneticut,  Tennesee,  New  Jersey,  Oregon,  Vermont,  New  York, 
Ohio,  Illinois,  West  Virginia,  Kansas,  Maine,  Nevada,  Missouri,  Indiana, 
Minnesota,  New  Hampshire,  ]Massach\ites,  Nebraska,  Iowa,  Arkansas, 
Florida,  North  Carolina,  Alabama,  South  Carolina  and  Louisiana  being 
three^fourths  and  more  of  the  several  states  of  the  union,  having  ratisfied 
the  fourteenth  article  of  amendment  of  the  constitution  of  the  United 
States,  duly  proposed  by  two-thirds  of  each  house  of  the  thirty-ninth  con- 
gress; therefore. 

Resolved,  That  said  fourteenth  article  is  hereby  declared  to  be  a  part  of 
the  constitution  of  the  United  States,  and  it  shall  be  duly  promulgated  as 
such  by  the  secretary  of  state."  The  secretarv  of  state  accordingly  issued 
a  proclamation,  dated  the  28th  of  July,  1868,  declaring  that  the  proposed 
fourteenth  amendment  had  been  ratislied  by  the  legislatures,  of  thirty  of 
tlie  thirty-sixstates,  Tennsylvania  ratisfied  it  February  13,  1807). 

ARTICLE  XV. 

The   Right  to  Vote. 

Sec.  1.  The  right  of  citizens  of  the  United  States  to  vote  shall  not  be 
denied  or  abridged  by  the  United  States  or  by  any  state  on  account  of 
race;  color  or  previous  condition  of  servitude. 

Sec.  2.  The  congress  shall  have  power  to  enforce  this  article  by  ap- 
propriate legislation. 

(The  fifteenth  amendment  to  the  Constitution  of  the  United  Stages  was 
proposed  to  'he  legislatures  of  the  several  states  by  the  fortieth  congress, 
on  the  27th  dav  of  Kebruarv  1869,  and  was  declared  in  a  proclamation  of 
the  secretarv  of  state,  dated  March  30, 1870  to  have  been  ratified  by  the 
legislatures 'of  twentv-nine  of  the  thirty-seven  states.  Pennsylvania 
ratified  it  March  26,  18'J9). 


OnOANlC  ACT. 


ORGANIC  ACT. 

AN  ACT  to  Organize  the  Territory  of  Nebraska. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the  United  States 
of  America  in  Congress  Assembled,  That  all  that  part  of  the  territory  of  the 
United  States  included  within  the  following  limits,  except  such  portions 
thereof  as  are  hereinafter  expressly  exempted  from  the  operations  of  this 
act,  to-wit:  beginning  at  a  point  on  the  Missouri  river,  where  the  fortieth 
parallel  of  north  latitude  crosses  the  same ;  thence  west  on  said  parellel  to 
the  east  boundry  of  the  territory  of  Utah,  on  the  summit  of  the  rockv 
mountains;  thence  on  said  summit  northward  to  the  forty-ninth  i)arallel 
of  north  latitude;  thence  east  on  said  parallel  to  the  western  boundary  of 
the  territory  of  Minnesota;  thence  southward  on  said  boundary  to  the 
Misssouri  river;  thence  down  the  main  channel  of  said  river  to  the  place  of 
l)eginning,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  created  into  a  temporary  govern- 
ment, by  the  name  of  the  Territory  of  Nebraska;  and  when  admitted  as  a 
state  or  states,  the  said  territory,  or  any  portion  of  the  same,  shall  be  re- 
ceived into  the  Union  with  or  without'slaverv,  as  their  constitution  mav 
prescribe  at  the  time  of  their  admission:  Provided,  Th&t  nothing  in  this 
act  contained  shall  be  construed  to  inhibit  the  government  of  the  United 
States  from  dividing  said  territory  into  two  or  more  territories,  in  such 
manner  and  at  such  times  as  congress  shall  deem  convenient  and  proper, 
or  from  attaching  any  portion  of  said  territory  to  any  other  state  or  terri- 
tory of  the  United  States:  Provided  further,  That  nothing  in  this  act  con- 
tained shall  be  construed  to  impair  the  rights  of  person  or  property  now 
pertaining  to  the  Indians  in  said  territory,  so  long  as  such  rights  shall  re- 
main unextinguished  by  treaty  between  the  United  States  and  such  In- 
dians, or  to  include  any  territory,  which,  by  treaty  with  auv  Indian  tribe, 
is  not,  without  the  consent  of  said  tribe,  to  be  Included  \vithiu  the  terri- 
torial limits  or  jurisdiction  of  any  s-tate  or  territory;  but  all  such  territory 
shall  be  excepted  out  of  the  boundaries,  and  constitute  no  part  of  tlie  ter- 
ritory of  Nebraska,  until  said  tribe  shall  signify  their  assent  to  the  presi- 
dent of  the  United  States  to  be  included  within  the  said  territory  of  Ne- 
braska, or  to  aftect  the  authority  of  the  government  of  the  United  States  to 
make  any  regulations  respecting  such  Indians,  their  lands,  property  or 
other  rights,  by  treaty,  law,  or  otherwise,  which  it  would  have  been  com- 
petent to  the  government  to  make  if  this  act  had  never  passed. 

Sec.  2.    And  be  it  farther  enacted,    That  the  executive  power  and  author- 

-  in  and  over  said  territory  of  Nebraska,  shall  be  vested  in  a  governor, 
shall  hold  his  office  for  tour  years,  and  until  his  successor  shall  be 
appointed  and  qualified,  unless  sooner  removed  by  the  president  of  the 
United  States.  The  governor  shall  reside  within  said  territory,  and  shall 
be  commander-in-chief  of  the  militia  thereof.  He  may  grant  pardons  and 
respite  for  oflenses  against  the  laws  of  said  territory,  and  reprieves  for 
ofl'enses  against  the  laws  of  the  United  States,  until  the  decision  of  the 
president  can  be  made  known  thereon;  he  shall  commission  all  officers 
who  shall  be  appointed  to  office  under  the  laws  of  the  said  territory,  and 
shall  take  care  that  the  laws  be  faithfully  executed. 

Sec.  3.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  there  shall  be  a  secretary  of  the 
said  territory,  who  shall  reside  therein,  and  hold  his  office  for  five  years, 
unless  sooner  removed  by  the  president  of  the  United  States:  he  shall  re- 
cord and  preserve  all  the  laws  and  proceedings  of  the  legislative  assembly 
hereinafter  constituted,  and  all  the  acts,  and  proceedings  of  the  governor 
in  his  executive  department;  he  shall  transmit  one  copy  of  the  laws  and 
journals  of  the  legislative  assembly  within  thirty  days  after  the  end  of  each 
session,  and  one  copy  of  the  executfve  proceedings  and  official  correspon- 
dence, semi-annually,  on  the  first  days  of  January  and  July  in  each  year, 
to  the  president  of  the  United  States,  and  two  copies  of  the  laws  to  the 
president  of  the  senate,  and  to  the  speaker  of  the  house  of  representatives, 
to  be  deposited  in  the  libraries  of  congress :  and  in  case  of  the  death,  re- 
moval, resignation,  or  absence  of  the  governor  from  the  territory,  the  sec- 
retary shall  be,  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  and  required  to  execute  aud 
perform  all  the  powers  and  duties  of  the  governor  ,during  such  vacancy  or 
absence,  or  until  anothor  governor  shall  be  duly  appointed  and  qualified 
to  till  such  vacancy. 

Sec.  4.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  the  legislative  power  and  au- 
thority of  said  territory  shall  be  vested  in  the  governor  and  a  legislative 
assembly.     The  legislative  assembly  shall  consist  of  a  council  aiid  house 


ity,  i 
who 


20  ORGANIC  ACT. 


of  representatives.  The  council  shall  consist  of  thirteen  members,  having 
the  qualilication  of  voters,  as  hereinafter  prescribed,  whose  term  of  service 
shall  continue  two  years.  The  house  of  representatives  shall,  at  its  first 
session,  consist  of  twenty-six  members,  possessing  the  same  qualifications 
as  prescribed  for  members  of  the  council,  and  whose  term  of  service  shall 
continue  one  year.  The  number  of  representatives  may  be  increased  by 
the  legislative  assembly,  from  time  to  time,  in  proportion  to  the  increase 
of  qualified  voters;  Provided,  That  the  whole  number  shall  never  exceed 
thirty-nine.  An  apportionment  shall  be  made,  as  nearly  equal  as  practi- 
cable, among  the  several  counties  or  districts,  for  the  election  of  the  coun- 
cil and  representatives,  giving  to  each  section  of  the  territory  representa- 
tion in  the  ratio  of  its  qualified  voters  as  nearly  as  may  be.  And  the  mem- 
bers of  the  council  and  of  the  house  of  representatives  shall  reside  in,  and 
lie  inhabitants  of,  the  district  or  county  or  counties  for  which  they  may 
be  elected  respectively.  Previous  to  the  first  election  the  governor  shall 
cause  a  census  or  enumeration  of  the  inhabitants  and  qualified  voters  of 
the  several  counties  and  districts  of  the  territory,  to  be  taken  by  such  per- 
sons and  in  such  mode  as  the  governor  shall  designate  and  appoint;  and 
the  person  so  appointed  sliall  receive  a  reasonable  compensation  therefor. 
And  the  first  election  shall  be  held  at  such  time  and  places,  and  be  con- 
ducted in  such  a  manner,  both  as  to  the  persons  who  shall  superintend 
such  election  and  the  returns  thereof,  as  the  governor  shall  appoint  and 
direct;  and  he  shall  at  the  same  time  declare  the  number  of  members  of 
the  council  and  house  of  representatives  to  which  each  of  the  counties  or 
districts  shall  be  entitled  under  this  act.  The  persons  having  the  highest 
number  of  legal  votes  in  each  of  said  council  districts  for  members  of  the 
council  shall  be  declared  by  the  governor  to  be  duly  elected  to  the  council; 
and  the  persons  having  the  highest  number  of  legal  votes  for  the  house  of 
^representatives  shall  be  declared  by  the  governor  to  be  duly  elected  mem- 
'bers  of  said  house;  Provided,  That  in  case  two  or  more  persons  voted  for 
shall  have  an  equal  number  of  votes,  and  in  case  a  vacancy  shall  other- 
wise occur  in  either  branch  of  the  legislative  assembly,  the  governor  shall 
order  a  new  election;  and  the  persons  thus  elected  tothelesislativeassem- 
l)ly  shall  meet  at  such  place  and  on  such  day  as  the  governor  shall  ap- 
point; but  thereafter,  the  time,  place,  and  manner  of  holding  and  con- 
ducting all  electionsby  the  people,  and  the  apportioning  the  representation 
in  the  several  counties  and  districts  to  the  council  and  house  of  represen- 
tatives, according  to  the  number  of  qualified  voters,  shall  be  prescribed 
by  law,  as  avcU  as  the  day  of  the  commencement  of  the  regular  sessions  of 
the  legislative  assembly;  Provided,  That  no  session  in  any  one  year  shall 
exceed  the  term  of  forty  days,  except  the  first  session,  which  may  con- 
tinue sixty  days. 

Sec.  5.  And  he  it  further  enacted.  That  every  free  white  male  inhabi- 
tant above  the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  who  shall  be  an  actual  resident  of 
said  territory,  and  shall  possess  the  qualifications  hereinafter  prescribed, 
shall  be  entitled  to  vote  at  the  first  election,  and  shall  be  eligible  to  any 
office  within  the  said  territory;  but  the  qualifications  of  voters,  and  of 
holding  olHce,  at  all  subsequent  elections,  shall  be  such  as  shall  be  pre- 
scribed by  the  legislative  assembly  ;  Provided,  That  the  right  of  sufirage 
and  of  holding  otfice  shall  be  exercised  only  by  citizens  of  the  United 
States,  and  those  who  shall  have  declared  on  oath  their  intention  to  be- 
come such,  and  shall  have  taken  an  oath  to  support  the  constitution  of  the 
United  States,  and  the  provisions  of  this  act.  And  provided  farther.  That 
no  officer,  soldier,  seaman,  or  marine,  or  other  person  iu  the  army  or  navy 
of  the  United  States,  or  attached  to  troo])S  in  the  service  of  the  United 
States,  shall  be  allowed  to  vote  or  hold  ofiice  in  said  territory,  by  reason  of 
being  v  n  service  therein. 

Sec.  6.  And  he  it  further  enacted.  That  the  legislative  power  of  the  ter- 
ritory shall  oxt,end  to  all  rightful  subjects  of  legislation  consistent  with 
Mie  constitntion  of  the  United  States  and  the  provisions  of  this  act;  but 
no  law  shall  be  passed  interfering  with  the  primary  disposal  of  the  soil ; 
i-.o  tax  shall  be  imposed  upon  the  i»roi)erty  of  the  United  States;  nor  shall 
the  lands  or  other  property  of  non-residents  be  taxed  higher  than  the 
lands  or  otlier  property  of  residents.  Every  bill  which  sliall  have  passed 
the  council  and  house  of  representatives  of  the  said  territory,  shall,  before 
it  becomes  a  law,  be  presented  to  the  governor  of  the  territory,  if  he  ap- 
proves, he  shall  sign  it;  but  if  not,  he  shall  return  it,  with  his  objections, 
to  the  honse  in  which  it  originated,  who  shall  enter  the  objections  at  large 
on  their  journal,  and  proceed  to  reconsider  it.  If,  after  such  reconsidera- 
tion, two-thirds  of  that  house  shall  agree  to  pass  the  bill,  it  shall  be  setjt, 


ORGANIC  ACT.  21 


together  with  the  objections,  to  the  other  house,  by  which  it  shall  likewise 
be  reconsidered,  and  if  approved  by  two-thirds  of  that  house  it  shall  be- 
come a  law.  But  in  all  such  cases  the  votes  of  both  houses  shall  be  deter- 
mined by  yeas  and  nays,  to  be  entered  on  the  journal  of  each  house  res- 
pectively. If  any  bill  shall  not  be  returned  by  the  governor  within  three 
days  (Sundays  excepted)  after  it  shall  have  been  presented  to  him,  the 
same  shall  be  a  law  in  like  manner  as  if  he  had  signed  it,  unless  the 
assembly,  by  adjournment,  prevent  its  return,  iu  which  case  it  shall  not 
be  a  law. 

Skc.  7.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  all  township,  district,  and  county 
officers,  not  hereiu  otherwise  provided  for,  shall  be  appointed  or  elected, 
as  the  case  may  be,  in  such  manner  as  shall  be  provided  by  the  governor 
and  legislative  assembly  of  the  territory  of  Nebraska.  The  governor  shall 
nominate,  and,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  legislative 
council,  appoint  all  officers  not  herein  otherwise  provided  for;  and  in  the 
first  instan'-e  the  governor  alone  may  appoint  all  said  officers,  Avho  shall 
hold  their  offices  until  the  end  of  the  first  session  of  the  legislative  assem- 
bly; and  shall  lay  ott"  the  necessary  districts  for  members  of  the  council 
and  house  of  representatives,  and  "all  other  officers. 

Sec.  8.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  no  member  of  the  legislative 
assembly  shall  hold,  or  be  appointed  to,  any  office  which  shall  have  been 
created, "or  the  salary  or  emoluments  of  which  shall  have  been  increased, 
while  he  was  a  member,  during  the  term  for  which  he  was  elected,  and 
for  one  year  after  the  expiration  of  such  term;  but  this  restriction  shall 
not  be  applicable  to  members  of  the  first  legislative  assembly ;  and  no  per- 
son holding  a  commission  or  appointment  under  the  United  States,  except 
postmasters,  shall  be  a  member  of  the  legislative  assembly,  or  hold  any 
office  under  the  goverment  of  said  territory. 

Sec.  9.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  judicial  power  of  said  terri- 
ritory  shall  be  invested  in  a  supreme  court,  district  courts,  probate  courts, 
and  in  justices  of  the  peace.  The  supreme  court  shall  consist  of  a  chief 
justice,  and  two  associate  justices,  any  two  of  whom  shall  constitute  a 
quorum,  and  who  shall  hold  a  term  at  the  seat  of  government  of  said  ter- 
ritory annually,  and  they  shall  hold  their  offices  during  the  period  of  four 
years,  and  until  their  successors  shall  be  appointed  and  quallified.  The 
said  territory  shall  be  divided  into  three  judicial  districts,  and  a  district 
court  shall  be  held  in  each  of  said  districts  by  one  of  the  justices  of  the 
supreme  court,  at  such  times  and  places  as  may  be  prescribed  bylaw;  and 
the  said  judges  shall,  after  their  appointments,  respectively  reside  in 
the  districts  which  shall  be  assigned  them.  The  jurisdiction  of  the  sev- 
eral courts  herein  provided  for,  both  appellate  and  original,  and  that  of 
the  probate  courts  and  of  justices  of  the  peace,  shall  be  as  limited  by  law; 
Provided,  That  justices  of  the  peace  shall  not  have  jurisdiction  of  any 
matter  in  controversv  when  the  title  or  boundaries  of  land  may  be  in  dis- 
pute, or  where  the  debt  or  sum  claimed  shall  exceed  one  hundred  dollars; 
and  the  said  supreme  and  district  courts  respectively  shall  possess  chan- 
cery as  well  as  common  law  jurisdiction.  Each  district  court,  or  the 
judge  thereof,  shall  appoint  its  clerk,  who  shall  also  be  the  register  in 
chancery,  and  shall  keep  his  office  at  the  place  where  the  court  may  be 
held.  Writs  of  error,  bills  of  exception,  and  appeals,  shall  be  allowed  in  all 
cases  from  the  final  decisions  of  said  district  courts,  to  the  supreme  court, 
under  such  regulations  as  may  be  prescribed  by  law;  but  in  no  case  re- 
moved to  the  supreme  court,  shall  trial  by  jury  be  allowed  in  said  court. 
The  supreme  court  or  the  justices  thereof,  shall  appoint  its  own  clerk,  and 
everv  clerk  shall  hold  his  office  at  the  pleasure  of  the  court  for  which  he 
shall  have  been  appointed.  Writs  of  error  and  appeals  from  the  final  de- 
cisions of  said  supreme  court,  shall  be  allowed,  and  may  be  taken  to  the 
supreme  court  of  the  United  States  in  the  same  manner  and  under  the 
same  regulations  as  from  the  circuit  courts  of  the  United  States,  where  the 
the  value  of  the  propertv,  or  the  amount  in  controversy,  to  be  ascertained 
by  the  oath  or  affirmation  of  either  party,  or  other  competent  witness, 
shall  exceed  one  thousand  dollars,  except  only  that  in  all  cases  involving 
title  to  slaves,  the  said  writs  of  errors  or  appeals,  shall  be  allowed  and  de- 
cided bv  the  supreme  court,  without  regard  to  the  value  of  the  matter, 
property,  or  title  in  controversy;  and  except  also  that  a  writ  of  error  or 
appeal  shall  also  be  allowed  to  the  supreme  court  of  the  United  States, 
from  the  decision  of  the  said  supreme  court  created  by  this  act,  or  of  any 
judge  thereof,  or  of  the  district  courts  created  by  this  act  or  of  any  judge 
thereof,  upon  anv  writ  of  habeas  corpus,  involving  the  question  of  personal 
fr^om;    Provided,  That  nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  construed  to 


22  ORGANIC  ACT. 


apply  to  or  affect  the  provisions  of  the  "act  respecting  fugitives  from  jus 
tice,  and  persons  escaping  from  the  service  of  their  masters,"  approved 
February  twelfth,  seventeen  hundred  and  ninety-three,  and  the  "act  to 
amend  and  supplementary  to  the  aforesaid  act,"  approved  September 
eighteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  fifty;  and  each  of  the  said  district  courts 
shall  have  and  exercise  the  same  jurisdiction  in  all  cases  arising  under  the 
constitution  and  laws  of  the  United  States  as  is  vested  in  the  circuit  and 
district  courts  of  the  United  States,  and  the  said  supreme  and  district 
court  of  the  said  territory,  and  the  respectiAC  judges  thereof  shall 
>  nd  may  grant  writs  of  habeas  corpus  in  all  cases  in  which  the  same  are 
grantedby  the  judges  of  the  United  States  in  the  District  of  Columbia; 
and  the  first  six  days  of  every  term  of  said  courts,  or  so  much  thereof  as 
shall  be  necessary,  shall  be  appropriated  to  the  trial  of  causes  arising  un- 
der the  said  constitution  and  laws,  and  writs  of  error  and  appeal  in  all 
such  cases  shall  be  made  to  the  supreme  court  of  said  territory,  the  same 
as  in  other  cases.  The  said  clerk  shall  receive  in  all  such  cases  the  same 
fees  which  the  clerks  of  the  district  courts  of  Utah  territory  now  receive 
for  similar  services. 

Sec.  10.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Tproviaions  of  an  act  entitled 
"an  act  respecting  fugitives  from  justice  and  persons  escaping  from  the 
service  of  their  masters,"  approved  February  twelve,  seventeen  hundred 
and  ninety-throe,  and  the  provisions  of  the  act  entitled,  "An  act  to  amend 
and  supplementary  to,  the  aforesaid  act,"  approved  September  eighteen, 
eighteen  hundred  and  fifty,  be  and  the  same  are  hereby  declared  to  extend 
to  and  be  in  full  force  within  the  limits  of  said  territory  of  Nebraska. 

Skc.  11.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  Thfit  there  shall  he  appointed  pn  at- 
torney for  said  territory,  who  shall  continue  in  ofhce  for  four  yeari,  and 
untilhis  successor  shall  be  appointed  and  quallified,  unless  sooner  re- 
moved by  the  president,  and  who  shall  receive  the  same  fees  and  salary  as 
(lie  attorney  of  the  United  States  for  the  present  territory  of  Utah.  There 
shall  also  be  a  marshal  for  the  territory  appointed,  Avho  shall  hold  his  of- 
fice for  four  years,  and  until  his  successor  shall  be  appointed  and  qualli- 
fied, unless  sooner  removed  by  the  president,  and  who  shall  execute  all 
lirocesses  issuing  from  the  said  courts,  when  exercising  their  jurisdiction 
as  circuit  and  district  courts  of  the  United  States;  he  shall  perform  the 
duties,  be  subject  to  tke  same  regxilations  and  penalties,  and  be  entitled  to 
the  same  fees  as  the  marshal  of  the  district  court  of  the  United  States  for 
the  present  territory  of  Utah,  and  shall,  in  addition,  be  paid  two  hundred 
dollars  anntially  as  a  compensation  for  extra  services. 

Sec.  12.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  the  governor,  secretary,  chief 
justices  and  associate  justices,  attorney  and  marshal,  shall  be  nominated, 
and,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  senate,  appointed  by  the 
president  of  the  United  States.  The  governor  and  secretary  to  be  appoint- 
ed as  aforesaid,  shall,  before  they  act  as  such,  respectively  take  an  oath  or 
affirmation  before  the  district  judge  or  some  justice  of  the  peace  in  the 
limits  of  said  territory  duly  authorized  to  administer  oaths  and  affirm- 
ations by  the  laws  now  in  force  therein,  or  before  the  chief  justice,  or 
some  associate  justice  of  the  supreme  court  of  the  United  States,  to  sup- 
port the  constitution  of  the  United  States  and  faithfully  to  discharge  the 
of  their  respective  offices,  which  said  oaths  when  so  taken,  shall  be  certi- 
fied by  the  person  by  whom  the  same  shall  have  been  taken;  and  such 
certificates  shall  be  received  and  recorded  by  the  said  secretary  among  the 
executive  proceedings;  and  the  chief  justice  and  as.sociate  justices,  and  all 
other  civil  officers  in  said  territory,  before  they  act  as  such,  shall  take  a 
like  oath  or  attirmation  before  the  said  governor  or  secretary,  or  some 
judge  or  justice  of  the  peace  of  the  territory,  who  may  be 'duly  com- 
missioned and  quallified,  which  said  oath  or  affirmation  shall  be  certified 
and  transmitted  by  the  person  taking  the  same  to  the  secretary,  to  be  by 
him,  recorded  as  aforesaid;  and  afterwards  the  like  oath  or  affirmation 
shall  be  taken,  certified,  and  recorded,  in  such  manner  and  form  as  may 
be  prescribed  by  law.  The  governor  sliall  receive  an  annual  salary  of  two 
thousand  five  hundred  dollars.  The  chief  justice  and  associate  justices 
shall  each  receive  an  annual  salary  of  two  thousand  dollars.  The  sec- 
retary shall  receive  an  annual  salary  of  two  thousand  dollars.  The  said 
salaries  shall  be  paid  quarter-yearly  from  the  dates  of  the  respective  ap- 
pointments, at  the  treasury  of"  the  United  States;  but  no  sucn  payment 
shall  be  made  until  said  ofiicers  sh«ll  have  entered  upon  the  duties  of 
their  respective  oppointments.  The  members  of  the  legislative  assembly 
shall  be  entitled  to  three  dollars  each  per  day,  during  their  attendance  at 
the  sessions  thereof,  and  three  dollars  each  for  every  twenty  miles'  travel 


ORGVNICACT.  23 


in  going  to  and  returning?  from  th  >  said  sessions,  estimated  according  to 
the  nearest  usually  traveled  route,  and  an  additional  allowance  of  three 
dollars  shall  be  paid  to  the  presiding  otlicer  of  each  house  for  each  day  he 
shall  so  preside.  And  a  chief  clerk,  and  assistant  clerk,  a  sergeant-at-arms, 
and  door-keeper  may  be  chosen  for  each  house;  and  th*^  chief  clerk  shall 
receive  four  dollars  per  day,  and  the  said  other  othcers  three  dollars  per 
day  during  the  s  ssion  of  the  legislative  assembly;  but  no  other  officer 
shall  be  ])aid  by  the  United  States;  Provided,  that 'there  shall  be  but  one 
session  of  the  legislature  annually,  unless,  on  an  extraordinary  occasion, 
the  governor  shdl  think  proper  to  call  the  legislature  together.  There 
shall  be  appropriated  annually  the  usual  sum,  to  be  expended  by  the  gov- 
ernor, to  defray  the  contingent  expenses  of  the  territory,  including  the 
salary  of  a  clerk  of  the  executive « department;  and  there  shall 
also  be  appropriated  annually  a  sutlicient  sum,  to  be  expended  by 
the  secretary  of  the  teiTitory,  and  upon  an  estimate  to  be  made  by  the 
secretary  of  the  treasury  of  the  United  States,  to  defray'  the 
expenses  of  the  legislative  assembly,  the  printing  of  laws,  and 
other  incidenial  expenses;  and  the  governor  and  secretary  of 
the  territor.,  shall,  in  the  disbursements  of  all  moneys  in- 
trusted to  them,  be  governed  solely  by  the  instructions  of  the  secretary 
of  the  treasury  of  the  United  States,  and  shall,  semi-annually,  account  to 
the  said  secretary  for  the  manner  in  which  the  aforesaid  'moneys  shall 
have  been  expended;  and  no  expenditures  shall  be  made  by  said"  legisla- 
tive assembly  for  objects  not  specially  authorized  by  the  acts  of  congress 
making  the  appropriations,  nor  beyond  the  sums  thus  appropriated  fo.- 
such  objects. 

Sec.  13.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  ihe  legislative  assembly  of  the 
territory  of  Nebraska  shall  hold  its  first,  session  at  such  time  and  place  in 
said  territory  as  the  govcrnL.r  thereof  shall  appoint  and  direct;  and  at  the 
said  first  session,  or  as  soon  thereafter  as  ihey  shall  deem  expedient,  the 
governor  and  legislative  assembly  shall  proceed  to  locate  and  establish 
the  seat  of  government  for  said  territory  at  stich  place  as  they  may  doL*  i 
eligible;  which  place,  however,  shall  thereafter  ba  subject  to  be  change  I 
by  the  said  governor  and  legislative  assembly. 

Sec.  14.  And  be  it  farther  enacted,  That  R  delegate  to  the  house  of  repre- 
sentatives of  the  United  States,  to  serve  for  the  term  of  two  years,  who 
shall  be  a  citizen  of  the  United  States,  may  be  elected  by  the  voters  qtiali- 
tied  to  elect  members  of  the  legislative  assembly,  who  shall  be  entitled  to 
the  same  rights  and  privileges  as  are  exercised 'and  enjoyed  by  the  dele- 
gates of  the  several  other  territories  of  the  United  States  to  the  said  house 
of  representatives;  but  the  uelegate  firsi.  elected  shall  hold  his  seat  only 
during  the  term  of  congress  to  which  he  shall  be  elect'^id.  The  first  elec- 
tion shall  be  held  at  such  time  and  places,  and  be  conducted  in  such  man- 
ner, as  the  governor  shall  appoint  and  direct,  and  at  all  subsequent  elec- 
tions the  times,  plates  and  manner  ol  holding  ihe  elections  shall  be  pre- 
scribed by  law.  The  person  having  the  great. st  number  of  votes  shall  be 
declared  by  the  governor  to  be  duly  elected,  and  a  certilicate  thereof  shall 
be  given  accordiiigly.  That  the  constitution  and  laws  of  the  United 
States,  which  are  not  locally  inapplicable,  shill  have  ihe  same  force 
and  effect  within  the  said  territory  of  Nebraska  as  elsewhere  within  the 
United  States,  except  the  eighth  section  of  the  act  preparatory  to  the  ad- 
mission of  Missouri  into  the  Union,  approved  March  sixth,  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  twenty,  which,  being  inconsistent  with  the  principle  of  non-in- 
tervention by  congress  with  slavery  in  the  states  and  territories,  as  recog- 
nized by  the'legislation  of  eighteeil  htindred  and  tifty,  commonly  called 
the  compromise  measures,  is  hereby  declared  inoperative  and  void,  it  be- 
ing the  true  intent  and  meaning  of"  this  act  not  to  legislate  slavery  into 
any  territory  or  state  nor  to  exclude  it  therefrom,  but  leave  the  people 
thereof  perfe'ctly  free  to  form  and  regulate  their  domestic  institutions  in 
their  own  way,  subject  only  to  the  constitution  of  the  United  States;  Pro- 
vided, That  nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  construed  to  revive  or  put 
in  force  any  law  or  regulation  which  may  have  existed  prior  to  the  act  of 
sixth  March,  eighteen  hundred  and  twenty,  either  protecting,  establish- 
ing, prohibiting,  or  abolishing  slavery. 

Sec,  15.  And  be  it  farther  enacted.  That  there  shall  hereafter  be  appro- 
priated, as  has  been  customary  for  the  territorial  goverments,  a  sufficient 
amount,  to  be  expended  under  the  direction  of  the  said  governor  of  the 
territorv  of  Nebraska,  not  exceeding  the  sums  heretofore  appropriated 
for  similar  objects,  for  the  erection  of  suitable  public  buildings  at  the  sent 
of  government,  and  for  the  purchase  of  a  library,  to  be  kept  at  the  seat  of 


ORGANIC  ACT. 


government  for  the  use  of  the  governor,  legislative  assembly,  judges  of  the 
supreme  court,  secretary,  marshall,  and  attorney  of  said  territory,  and 
such  other  persons  and  "under  such  regulations  as  shall  be  prescribed  by 
law. 

SiiC.  16.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  when  the  lands  in  the  said  ter- 
ritory shall  be  surveyed  under  tlie  direction  of  the  government  of  the 
United  States,  prepartory  to  bringing  the  same  into  market,  spctions  num- 
ber sixteen  to  thirty-sixin  each  township  in  said  territory  shall  be  and 
the  same  are  hereby  reserved  for  the  purpose  of  being  applied  to  schools 
in  said  territory,  and  in  the  states  and  territories  hereafter  to  be  erected 
out  of  the  same. 

Sec.  17.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  iintil  otherwise  provided  by  law, 
ihe  governor  of  said  territory  may  define  the  judicial  districts  of  said  ter- 
ritory and  assign  the  judges  wh«  may  be  appointed  for  said  territory  to 
t lie  several  districts,  and  also  appoint  the  times  and  places  for  holding 
courts  in  the  several  counties  or  subdivisions  in  each  of  said  judicial  dis- 
iricts  by  proclamation  to  be  issued  by  him;  but  the  legislative  assembly, 
:i I  their"  first  or  any  subsequent  session,  may  organize,  alter,  or  modify 
,-uch  judicial  districts,  and  assign  the  judges,  and  alter  the  times  and 
iilaces  of  holding  the  courts,  as  to  them  shall  seem  proper  and  convenient. 

.s.;c.  18.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  all  officers  to  be  appointed  by 
l!ie  president,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  senate,  for  the 
lerntory  of  Nebraska,  who,  by  virtue  of  the  provisions  of  any  law  now  ex- 
isting or  which  may  be  enacted  during  the  present  congress,  are  reqiiired 
to  give  security  for  moneys  that  may  be  intrusted  with  them  for  disburse- 
jiient,  shall  give  such  seciirity  at  such  time  and  place,  and  in  such  man- 
ner, as  the  secretary  of  the  territory  may  prescribe. 

Approved  May  30,  1864. 


ENABLING   ACT.  26 


ENABLING  ACT. 

AN  ACT  to  enable  the  people  of  Nebraska  to  form  a  constitution  and  state 
government,  and  for  the  admission  of  su(;h  stat  j  into  the  Union  on  an 
equal  footing  with  the  original  states. 

[Passed  April  19,  ISSU,  13th  U.  S.  Statutes  at  large,  Paqe  U7.] 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  ttie  United  States 
of  America  in  Congress  Assembled:  Tliat  the  inhabitants  of  that  portion  of 
the  territory  of  Nebraska  included  in  the  boundaries  hereinafter  desig- 
nated be  and  they  are  hereby  authorized  to  form  for  themselves  a  consti- 
tution and  state  government  with  the  name  aforesaid,  which  states, 
when  so  formed,  shall  be  admitted  into  the  Union  as  hereinafter  pro- 
vided. 

Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  the  said  state  of  Nebraska  shall 
consist  of  all  the  territory  included  within  the  following  boundaries,  to- 
wit:  Commencing  at  a  point  formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  western 
bound ry  of  the  state  of  Missouri  with  tlie  fortieth  degree  of  north  lati- 
tude; extending  thence  due  west  along  said  fortietli  degree  of  north  lati- 
tude to  a  point  formed  l)y  its  intersection  with  the  twenty-fifth  degree  of 
longitude  west  from  Washington;  thence  north  along  said  tweutv-tifth de- 
gree of  longitude  to  a  j)<)int  formed  by  its  intersection  with  the  forty-first 
degree  of  north  latitude:  thence  west  along  said  forty-first  degree  of  north 
latitude  to  a  point  formed  by  its  intersection  with  the  twenty-seventh  de- 
gree of  longitude  west  from  Washington;  thence  north  along'said  twen  ty- 
seventh  degree  of  west  longitude  to  a  point  formed  by  its  intersectio'n 
with  the  forty-third  degree  of  north  latitude;  thence  east  along  said  forty- 
third  degree  of  no  th  latitude  to  the  Keva  Paha  river;  thence  down  the 
middle  of  the  channel  of  said  river,  with  its  meanderings,  to  its  junction 
with  the  Niobrara  river;  thence  down  tue  middle  of  the  channel  of  said 
Niobrara  river,  and  following  the  meanderings  thereof,  to  its  junction 
with  the  Missouri  river;  thence  down  the  middle  of  the  channel  of  said 
Missouri  river,  and  following  the  meanderings  thereof,  to  the  place  of 
beginning. 

Sec.  3.  And  be  it  further  encLcted,  ThSit  all  persons  (qualified  by  law  to 
vote  for  representatives  to  the  general  assembly  of  said  territory  shall  be 
qualified  to  be  elected;  and  they  are  hereby  authorized  to  vote  for  and 
choose  representatives  to  form  a  convention,  under  such  rules  and  regu- 
lations as  the  governor  of  said  territory  may  prescribe,  and  also  to  vote 
upon  the  acceptance  or  rejection  of  such  constitution  as  may  be  formed  by 
said  convention,  under  such  rules  and  regulations  as  said  convention  may 
prescribe;  and  if  any  of  said  citizens  are  enlisted  in  the  army  of  the 
IJnited  States,  and  are  still  within  said  territory,  they  shall  be  permitted 
to  vote  at  their  place  of  rendezvous;  and  if  any' are  absent  from  said  terri- 
tory by  reason  of  their  enlistment  in  the  army  of  the  United  States,  they 
shall  be  permitted  to  vote  at  their  place  of  service,  under  the  rules  and 
regulations  in  each  case  to  be  prescribed  as  aforesaid;  and  the  aforesaid 
representative  to  form  the  aforesaid  convention  shall  be  apportioned 
among  the  several  counties  in  said  territory  in  proportion  to  the  popula- 
tion, as  near  as  may  be,  and  said  apportionment  shall  Lc  made  for  said 
territory  by  the  governor.  United  States  district  attorney,  and  chief  justice 
thereof,  orany  two  of  them.  And  the  governor  of  said  territory  shall, 
by  proclamation,  ou  or  before  the  first  Monday  of  Mav  next,  order  an  elee- 
tfon  of  the  representatives  aforesaid  to  be  held  on  the  first  Moijday  in 
June  thereafter  throughout  the  territory  ;  and  such  election  shall  be  con- 
ducted in  the  same  manner  as  is  prescribed  by  the  laws  of  said  territory 
regulating  elections  therein  for  members^of  th-e  bouse  of  representatives; 
and  the  number  of  members  to  said  convention  shall  be  the  same  as  now 
constitute  both  branches  of  the  legislature  of  the  aforesaid  territory. 

Sec.  4.  Andbeit  further  enacted,  That  the  members  of  the  convention 
thus  elected  shall  meet  at  the  capital  of  said  territory  on  the  first  Monday 
in  July  next,  and  after  organization  shall  declare,  on  behalf  of  the  people 
of  said  territory,  that  they  adopt  the  constitution  of  the  United  States; 
whereupon  the"^  said  convention  shall  be  and  it  is  hereby  authorized  to 
form  a  constitution  and  state  government;  Provided,  That  the  constitution 
when  formed  shall  be  republican,  and  not  rei)Ugnant  to  the  con.stilution 
of  the  United  States  and  the  principles  of,the  Declaration  of  Independence; 
And  provided  further,  That  sa,id  voustitntioii  t^hsill  provide,  by  an  article 
forever  irrevocable,  without  the  consent  of  the  congress  of  the  United 
States: 


26  ENABLING  ACT. 

First,  That  slavery  or  involuntary  servitude  shall  be  forever  prohibited 
ill  said  state. 

Second,  That  perfect  toleration  of  religious  sentiment  shall  be  secured, 
and  no  inhabitant  of  said  state  shall  ever  be  molested  in  person  or  property 
on  account  of  his  or  her  mode  of  religious  worship. 

Third,  That  the  people  inhabiting  said  territory  do  agree  and  decla'f> 
that  they  forever  disclaim  all  right  and  title  to  the  unappropriated  publi(; 
lands  lying  within  said  territory,  and  that  the  same  shall  l^e  and  remain 
at  the  sole  and  entire  disposition. of  the  United  States,  and  that  the  lands 
belonging  to  citizens  of  the  United  States  residing  without  the  said  state 
shall  never  be  taxed  higher  than  the  land  belonging  to  residents  thereof; 
and  that  no  taxes  shall  be  imposed  by  said  state  on  lands  or  property 
therein  belonging  to  or  which  may  hereafter  be  purchased  by 
the  United  States. 

Sec.  5.  Anebeit  further  enacted,  Theitinca.se  a  constitution  and  state 
government  shall  be  formed  for  the  people  of  said  territory  of  Nebraska 
in  compliance  with  the  provisions  of  this  act,  that  said  convention  form- 
ing the  same  shall  provide  by  ordinance  for  submitting  said  constitution 
to  the  people  of  said  state  for  their  ratification  or  rejection  at  an  election 
to  be  held  on  the  second  Tuesday  of  October,  one  thousand,  eight  hundred 
and  sixty-four,  at  such  places  and  under  such  regulations  as  may  be  pre- 
scribed therein,  at  Avhich  election  the  quallified  voters  as  hereintoforc 
y>rovided,  shall  vote  directly  for  or  against  the  proposed  constitution,  and 
the  returns  of  said  election  shall  be  made  to  the  acting  governor  of  the 
territory,  who  together  with  the  United  States  district  attorney,  and  chief 
justice  of  the  said  territory,  or  any  two  of  them,  shall  canvass  the  same, 
and  if  a  majority  of  the  legal  votes  shall  be  cast  for  said  constitution  in 
ill  said  13 roposed  state,  the  said  acting  governor  shall  certify  the  same  lo 
the  president  of  the  United  States,  together  with  a  copy  of  the  said  consti- 
tution and  ordinances;  whereupon  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  president  of 
tlie  United  States  to  issue  his  proclamation  declaring  the  state  admitted 
into  the  Union  on  an  equal  footing  with  the  oiiginal  states,  without  any 
further  action  whatever  on  the  part  of  congress. 

Skc.  6.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  until  the  next  general  census 
shall  be  taken  said  state  of  Nebraska  shall  be  entitled  to  one  representa- 
tive in  the  house  of  representatives  of  the  United  States,  which  represen- 
tative together  with  the  governor  and  state  and  other  officers  provided  for 
in  said  constitution,  may  be  elected  on  the  same  day  a  vote  is  taken  for  or 
against  the  proposed  constitution  and  state  government. 

Sec.  7.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  sections  number  sixteen  and 
thirty-six  in  every  township,  and  when  such  sections  have  been  sold  or 
otherwise  dispo.«<e*d  of  by  any  act  of  congress,  other  lands  equivalent  there- 
io,  in  legal  subdivisions  of  not  less  than  one  quarter-section,  and  as  con- 
tiguous as  may  be,  shall  be  and  are  hereby  granted  to  said  state  for  the 
support  of  common  schools. 

Sec.  8.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  Th&t  provided  the  state  of  Nebraska 
shall  be  admitted  into  the  Union  in  accordance  with  the  foregoing  pro- 
visions of  this  act,  that  twenty  entire  sections  of  the  unappropriat- 
ed public  lands  within  said  state,  lo  be  selected  and  located  by  direction 
of  the  legislattire  thereof,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  January,  Anno 
Domini  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-eight,  shall  be  and  they  are  hereby 
granted,  in  legal  subdivisions  of  not  less  than  one  hnndr»>d  and  sixty 
acres,  to  said  state  for  the  purpose  of  erecting  public  buildings  at  the 
capital  of  said  state  for  legislative  and  judicial  purposes,  in  such  manner 
as  the  legislature  shall  prescribe. 

Sec.  9.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  fifty  other  entire  sections  of 
land,  as  aforesaid,  to  be  selected  and  located  as  aforesaid,  in  legal  subdi- 
visions a=  aforesaid,  shall  be  and  they  are  hereby  granted  to  said  state 
for  the  purpose  of  erecting  a  suitable  building  for  a  penitentiary  or  state 
prison  in  the  manner  aforesaid. 

Sec.  10.  And  be  it  further  enacted ,  That  seventy-two  other  sections  of 
land  shall  be  set  apart  and  reserved  for  the  use  and  support  of  a  state 
university,  to  be  selected  in  manner  as  aforesaid,  and  to  be  appropriated 
and  applied  as  the  legislature  of  said  state  may  prescribe  for  the  purpose 
named,  and  for  no  other  purpose. 

Sec.  11.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  all  salt  springs  within  said 
state,  not  exceeding  twelve  in  number,  with  six  sections  of  land  adjoin- 
ing, or  as  contiguous  as  may  be  to  each,  shall  be  granted  to  said  state  for 


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its  use,  the  said  land  to  be  selected  by  the  governor  thereof  within  one 
year  after  the  admission  of  the  state,  and  when  so  selected  to  be  used  or 
disposed  of  on  such  terms,  conditions,  and  regulations  as  the  legislature 
shall  direct;  Provided,  That  no  salt  spring  or  lands,  the  right  whereof 
is  now  vested  in  any  individual  or  individuals,  or  which  hereafter  shall 
be  confirmed  or  adjudged  to  any  individual  or  individuals,  shall,  by  this 
act,  be  granted  to  said  state. 

Sec.  12.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  five  per  centum  of  the  proceeds 
of  the  sales  of  all  public  lands  lying  within  said  state,  which  have  been 
or  shall  be  sold  by  the  United  States  prior  or  subsequent  to  the  admission 
of  said  state  into  the  Union,  after  deducting  all  expenses  incident  to  the 
same,  shall  be  paid  to  the  said  state  for  the  support  of  the  common 
schools. 

Sec.  13.  And  be  it  farther  enacted.  That  from  and  after  the  admission 
of  said  state  of  Nebraska  into  the  Union  in  pursuance  of  this  act,  the  laws 
of  the  United  States,  not  locally  inapplicable,  shall  have  the  same  force 
and  effect  within  the  said  state  as  else vvliere  within  the  United  States; 
and  said  state  shall  constitute  one  judicial  district,  and  be  called  the  dis- 
trict of  Nebraska. 

Sec.  14.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  any  unexpended  balance  of  the 
appropriations  for  said  territorial  legislative  expenses  of  Nebraska  re- 
maining for  the  fiscal  years  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-three  and  eigh- 
teen hundred  and  sixty-four,  or  so  much  thereof  as  may  be  necessary, 
shall  be  applied  to  and  used  for  defraying  the  expenses  of  said  conven- 
tion and  for  the  payment  of  the  members  thoreof,  under  the  same  rules, 
regulations,  and  rates  as  are  now  provided  by  law  for  the  payment  of  the 
territorial  legislature. 


CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  STATE  OF  NEBRASKA. 


CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  STATE  OF  NEBRASKA. 
In  For.cE  NovE  ,.ber  1,  1875. 

HIEAMBLE. 

We,  the  people,  grateful  to  Almighty  God  for  our  freedom,  do  ordain 
and  establish  the  following  declaration  of  rights  and  frame  of  govern- 
ment, as  the  constitution  of  the  state  of  Nebraska. 
ARTICLE  I. 
Bill  of  Kigrhts. 

Sec.  1.    All  persons  are  by  nature  free  and  independent,  and  have  cer- 
tain inherent  and  inalienable  rights;  among  these  are  life,  liberty,  and 
the  pursuit  of  happiness.    To  secure  these  rights,  and  the  protection  of 
property,  governments  are  instituted  among  people,  deriving  their  just  , 
powers  from  the  consent  of  the  governed. 

Sac.  2.  There  shall  be  neither  slavery  or  unvoluntary  servitude  in  this 
state,  otherwise  than  for  punishment  of  crime  whereof  the  party  shall 
have  been  duly  convicted. 

Sec.  3.  No  person  shall  be  deprived  of  life,  liberty,  or  property,  without 
due  process  of  law.    Turner  v.  Althaus,  6  Neb.,  54. 

Sec.  4.  All  persons  have  a  natural  and  indefeasible  right  to  worship 
Almighty  God  according  to  the  dictates  of  their  own  consciences,  ^o 
l)erson  shall  be  compelled  to  attend,  erect,  or  support  any  place  of  worship 
against  his  consent,  and  no  preference  shall  be  given  by  law  to  any  relig- 
ious society,  nor  shall  any  interference  with  the  rights  of  conscience  be 
permitted.  No  religious  test  shall  be  required  as  a  qualification  for  office, 
nor  shall  any  person  be  incompetent  to  be  a  witness  on  account  of  his 
religious  belief;  but  nothing  herein  shall  be  construed  to  dispense  with 
oaths  and  affirmations.  Religion,  morality,  and  knowledge,  however, 
being  essential  to  good  government,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  legislature 
*o  pass  suitable  laws  to  protect  every  religious  denomination  in  the 
peaceable  enjoyment  of  its  own  mode  of  public  worship,  and  to  encour- 
age schools  and  the  means  of  instruction. 

Freedom  of  Speech  and  Press. 

Sec.  5.    Every  person  may  freely  speak,  write  and  publish  on  all    sub- 
jects, being  responsible  for  the  abuse  of  that  liberty;  and  in  all  trials  for 
libel,  both  civil  and  criminal,  the  truth,  when  published  with  good   mo- 
tives and  for  justifiable  ends,  shall  be  a  sufficient  defense. 
Trial  by  Jury  Inviolate. 

Sec.  6.    The  right  of  trial  by  jury  shall  remain  inviolate,  but  the  legis- 
lature may  authorize  trial  by  jury  of  a  less  number  than  twelve  men  in 
courts  inferior  to  the  district  court.    Lamaster  v.  Scoficld,  5  Neb.,  148. 
The  People  Secure  in  Their  Persons,  Houses  and  Effects,  etc. 

Sec.  7.  The  right  of  the  people  to  be  secure  in  their  persons,  houses, 
papers,  and  effects,  against  unreasonable  searches  and  seizures,  shall  not 
be  violated ;  and  no  warrant  shall  issue  but  upon  probable  cause,  sup- 
ported by  oath  of  affirmation,  and  particularly  describing  the  place  to  be 
searched  and  the  person  or  thing  to  be  seized. 

Writ  of  Habeas  Corpus  Guaranteed. 

Sec.  8.  The  privilege  of  the  writ  of  habeas  corpus  shall  not  be  sus- 
pended unless,  in  case  of  rebellion  or  invasion,  the  public  safety  requires 
It,  and  then  only  in  such  manner  as  shall  be  prescribed  by  law. 


CONSTITUTION  OP  THK  STATE  OP  NEBRASKA.  29 

Bail;  Excessive  Fines,  etc. 

Sec.  9.  All  persons  shall  be  bailable  by  sufficient  sureties,  except  for 
treason  and  murder,  where  tne  proof  is  evident  or  the  presumption  great. 
Excessive  bail  sliall  not  be  required,  nor  excessive  fines  imposed,  nor 
cruel  and  unusual  punishment  inflicted. 

Criminal  Offenses— Indictment  of  a  Grand  Jury— Licgislature  may 
Abolisli.  etc. 

Sec.  10.  No  person  shall  be  held  to  answer  for  a  criminal  otfense,  ex- 
cept in  cases  in  which  the  punishment  is  by  fine  or  imprisonment,  other- 
wise than  in  the  penitentiary,  in  case  of  impeachment,  and  in  cases 
arising  in  the  army  and  navy  or  in  the  militia  when  in  actual  service  in 
time  of  war  or  public  danger,  unless  on  a  presentment  or  indictment  of  a 
grand  jury;  Provided,  That  the  legislature  may  by  law  provide  for 
holding  persons  to  answer  for  criminal  offences  on  information  of  a  pub- 
lic prosecutor,  and  may  by  law  abolish,  limit,  change,  amend,  or  other- 
wise regulate  the  grand  jury  system. 

Accused  Guaranteed  the  Right  to  Appear  and  Defend. 

Sec.  11.  In  all  criminal  prosecutions  the  accused  shall  have  the  right 
to  appear  and  defend  in  person  or  by  counsel,  to  demand  the  nature  and 
cause  of  accusation,  and  to  have  a  copy  thereof:  to  meet  the  witnesses 
against  him  face  to  face;  to  have  process  to  compel  the  attendance  of  wit- 
nesses in  his  behalf,  and  a  speedy  public  trial  by  an  impartial  jury  of  the 
county  or  district  in  which  the  offense  is  alleged  to  have  been  commit  ted. 
Not  to  Give  Evidence  Against  Himself. 

Sec.  12    No  person  shall  be  compelled,  in  any  criminal  case,  to  give  evi- 
dence against  himself,  or  be  twice  put  in  jeopardy  for  the  same   offense. 
Justice  to  be  Adnainistered  Without  Denial  or  Delay. 

Sec.  13.    All  courts  shall  be  open,  and    every    person,    for  any    injury 
done  him  in  his  lands,  goods,  person,  or  reputation,  shall  have  a  remedy 
by  due  course  of  law,  and  justice  administered  without  denial  or   delay. 
Treason  Against  the  State. 

Sec.  14.  Treason  against  the  state  shall  consist  only  in  levying  war 
against  the  state,  or  in  adhering  to  its  enemies,  giving  them  aid  and 
comfort.  No  person  shall  be  convicted  of  treason  unless  on  the  testi- 
mony of  two  witnesses  to  the  same  overt  act,  or  on  confession  in  open 
court. 

Penalties  to  he  Proportionate  to  Offense. 

Sec.  15.  All  penalties  shall  be  proportioned  to  the  nature  of  the  offense, 
and  no  conviction  shall  work  corruption  of  blood  or  forfeiture  of  estate; 
nor  shall  any  person  be  transported  out  of  the  state  for  any  offense  com- 
mitted within  the  state. 

No  BiU  of  Attainder. 

Sec.  16.    No  bill  of  attainder,  ex  pos< /ac<o  law,  or  law  impairing  the 
obligation  of  contracts,  or  making  any  irrevocable  grant  of  special  privi- 
leges or  immunities,  shall  be  passed.    Jones  v.  Davis,  6  Neb.,  33. 
Military. 

Sec.  17.  The  military  shall  be  in  strict  subordination  to  the  civil 
power. 

Quartering  of  Soldiers. 

Sec.  18.  No  soldier  shall,  in  time  of  peace,  be  quartered  in  any  house 
without  the  consent  of  the  owner;  nor  in  time  of  war,  except  in  the  man- 
ner prescribed  by  law. 


CONSTITUTION  OP  THE  STA^TE  OP  NEBRASKA. 


Peaceable  Assembly  and  the  Right  of  Petition  Guaranteed. 

Sec.  19.  The  right  of  the  people  peaceably  to  assemble  to  consult  for 
the  common  good,  and  to  petition  the  government,  or  any  department 
thereof,  shall  never  be  abridged. 

No  Imprisonment  for  Debt. 
Sec.  20.    No  person  shall  be  imprisoned  for  debt  in  any  civil  action  on 
mesne  or  final  process,  unless  in  cases  of  fraud. 

Private  Property  for  Public  Use. 
Sec  21.    The  property  of  no  person  shall  be  taken  or  damaged  for  pub- 
lic use  without  just  compensation  therefor. 

All  Elections  free  and  Without  Hindrance. 
Sec  22.    All  elections  shall  be  free;  and  there  shall  be  no  hindrance  or 
impediment  to  the  right  of  a  qualified  voter  to  exercise  the  elective  fran- 
chise, 

Of  Writ  of  Error. 

Sec  23.    The  writ  of  error  shall  be  a  writ  of  right  in  all  cases  of  felony, 

and  in  capital  cas^s  shall  operate  as  a  supersedeas  to  stay  the  execution 

of  the  the  sentence  of  death  until  the  further  order  of  the  supreme  court 

in  the  premises. 

The  Right  of  Appeal. 

Sec  24.    The  right  to  be  heard  in  all  civil  cases  in  the  court  of  last  re- 
sort, by  appeal,  error,  or  otherwise,  shall  not  be  denied. 
No  Distinction  Between  Resident  Aliens  and  Citizens   in  Reference 
to  Property. 

Sec  25.    No  distinction  shall  ever  be  made  by  law  between  resident 

aliens  and  citizens  in  reference  to  the  possession,  enjoyment  or  descent 

of  property. 

Reserved  Rights. 

Sbc  26.  This  enumeration  of  rights  shall  not  be  construed  to  impair  or 
deny  others  retained  by  the  people,  and  all  powers  not  herein  delegated 
remain  with  the  people. 

ARTICLE  II. 
Distribution  of  Powers. 
Sec  1.    The  powers  of  the  goverment  of  this  state  are  divided  into  three 
distinct  departments— the  legislative,  executive,  and  judicial;  and  no 
person  or  collection  of  persons  being  one  of  these  departments  shall  ex- 
ercise any  power  properly  belonging  to  either  of  the  others,  except  as 
hereinafter  expressly  directed  or  permitted. 
ARTICLE  III. 
The  Legislative. 
Sec  1.    The  legislative  authority  is  vested  in  a  senate  and  house  of 
representatives. 

Enumeration  and  Apportionment. 
Sec  2.  The  legislature  shall  provide  by  law  for  an  enumeration  of  the 
inhabitants  of  the  state  in  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-five, 
and  every  ten  years  thereafter;  and  at  its  first  regular  session  after  each 
enumeration,  and  also  after  each  enumeration  made  by  the  authority  of 
the  United  States,  but  at  no  other  time,  the  legislature  shall  apportion 
the  senators  and  representatives  according  to  the  number  of  inhabitants, 
excluding  Indians  not  taxed  and  soldiers  and  officers  of  the  United 
States  army  and  navy. 

Number  of  Senators  and  Representatives. 
Sec  3.    The  house  of  representatives  shall  consist  ot  eighty-four  mem- 


CONSTITUTION  OF  tSE  STATE  Of  NEBRASKA.  31 

bers,  and  the  senate  shall  consist  of  thirty  members,  until  the  year  eight- 
een hundred  and  eighty,  after  which  time   the  number  of  members  of 
each  house  shall  be  regulated  by  law;  but  the  number  of  representatives 
shall  never  exceed  one  hundred,  nor  that  of  senators  thirty-three. 
Biennial  Sessions. 

The  sessions  of  the  legislature  shall  be  biennial,  except  as  otherwise 
provided  in  this  constitution. 

Term  of  Office  and  Pay  of  Members  (as  amended). 

"Sf.c.  4.  The  term  of  office  of  members  of  the  legislature  shall  be  two 
years,  and  they  shall  each  receive  pay  at  the  rate  of  five  dollars  per  day, 
during  their  sitting,  and  ten  cents  for  every  mile  they  shall  travel  in  going 
to  and  returning  from  the  place  of  meeting  of  the  legislature  on  the  most 
r.sual  route;  P  ovided,  however,  That  they  shall  not  receive  pay  for  more 
than  sixty  days  at  any  one  sitting,  nor  more  than  one  hundred  days  dur- 
ing their  term.  That  neither  members  of  the  legislature  nor  employes 
sliall  receive  any  i)ay  or  perquisites  other  than  their  salary  and  mileage. 
Kach session,  except  special  sessions,  shall  be  not  less  than  sixty  days. 
After  the  expiration  of  forty  days  of  the  session,  no  bills  or  joint  resolu- 
tions of  the  nature  of  bills  shall  be  introduced,  unless  the  gov^  rnor  shall, 
by  special  message  call  the  attention  of  the  legislature  to  the  necessity  of 
passing  a  law  on  the  subject-matter  embraced  in  the  message,  and  the 
introduction  of  the  bills  shall  be  restricted  thereto." 
Eligibility. 

Sec.  5.  No  person  shall  be  eligible  to  the  office  of  senator  or  member  of 
the  house  of  representatives  who  shall  not  be  an  elector  and  have  resided 
within  the  district  from  which  he  is  elected  for  the  term  of  one  year 
next  before  his  election,  unless  he  shall  have  been  absent  on  the  public 
business  of  the  United  States  or  of  this  state.  And  no  person  elected  as 
aforesaid  shall  hold  his  office  after  he  shall  have  removed  from  such 
district. 

Sec.  6.  No  person  holding  office  under  the  authority  of  the  United 
States  or  any  lucrative  office  under  the  authority  of  the  state,  shall  be 
eligible  to  or  have  a  seat  in  the  legislature;  but  this  provision  shall  not 
extend  to  precinct  or  township  officers,  justices  of  the  peace,  notaries 
public,  or  officers  of  the  militia;  nor  shall  any  person  interested  in  acon- 
tractwith,  or  an  unadjusted  claim  against  the  state  hold  a  seat  in  the 
legislature. 

Opening  of  Sessions.    Rules,  etc. 

Sec.  7.  '1  he  session  of  the  legislature  shall  commence  at  twelve  o'clock 
(noon)  on  the  first  Tuesday  in  January  in  the  year  next  ensuing  the  elec- 
tion of  members  thereof,  and  at  no  other  time,  unless  as  provided  by  this 
constitution.  A  majority  of  the  members  electad  to  each  housi  shall 
constitute  a  quorum.  Each  house  shall  determine  the  rules  of  its  pro- 
ceedings and  be  the  judge  of  the  election  returns  and  qualifications  o 
its  members;  shall  choose  its  own  officers;  and  the  senate  shall  choose  a 
temporary  president  to  preside  when  the  lieutenant-governor  shall  not 
attend  as  president,  or  shall  act  as  governor.  The  secretary  of  state  shall 
ca  1  the  house  of  rjpris.ntatives  to  order  at  the  opening  of  each  new 
legislature,  and  preside  over  it  until  a  temporary  presiding  officer  there- 
of shall  have  been  chos  n  and  shall  have  taken  his  seat.  No  member 
shall  be  expelled  by  either  house  except  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  all  the 

lembers  elected  to  that  house,  and  no  member  shall  be  twice  expel  ed 


82  CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  STATE  OF  NEBRASKA. 

for  the  same  offense.  Each  house  may  punish  by  imprisonment  any  i  er- 
son,  not  a  member  thereof,  who  shall  be  guilty  of  disrespect  to  the  house 
by  disorderly  or  contemptuous  behavior  in  its  presence,  but  no  such  im- 
prisonment shall  extend  beyond  twenty-four  hours  at  one  time,  u  less 
the  person  shall  persist  in  such  disorderly  or  contemptuous  behavior. 

Sec.  8.  Each  house  shall  keep  a  journal  of  its  proceedings  and  publi  Ij 
them  (except  such  parts  as  may  require  secrecv)  and  the  yeas  and  nays 
of  the  members  on  an  question,  shall,  at  the  desire  of  any  two  of  them, 
be  entered  on  the  journa'.  All  votes  in  either  house  shall  be  viva  vo  e. 
The  doors  of  each  house  and  of  the  committee  of  the  whole  shall  be  open, 
unless  when  the  business  shall  be  such  as  ought  to  be  kept  secret. 
Neither  house  shall,  without  the  consent  of  the  other,  adjourn  for  more 
than  three  da>s. 

Rules  Concerning  Bills. 
Sec.  9.    Any  bill  may  originate  in  either  house  of  the  legislature,  ex- 
cept bills  appropriating  money,  which  sha.l  ori  inate  only  in  the  house 
of  representatives,  and  all  bills  passed  by  one  house  may  be  amended  by 
the  other. 

Sec.  10.  The  enacting  clause  of  a  law  shall  be,  "Be  it  enacted  by  the 
legislature  of  the  state  of  Nebraska,"  and  no  law  shall  be  enacted  except 
by  bill.  No  b  11  shall  be  passed  unless  by  assent  of  a  mMJority  of  all  the 
members  elected  to  each  house  of  the  legisliture.  And  the  question  up- 
on the  final  passage  shall  be  taken  immediately  upon  it,  last  reading, 
and  the  yeas  and  nays  shall  be  entered  upon  the  journal. 

Skc  11.  Every  bill  and  concurr  n  resolution  shall  be  read  at  large  on 
three  different  diys  in  each  house,  and  the  bill  and  all  amendments 
thereto  shall  be  printed  before  the  vote  is  taken  upon  it<»  final  passage. 
No  bill  shall  contain  m  re  than  one  subject,  and  the  same  shall  be  clear- 
ly expressed  in  its  title;  and  n  >  law  shall  be  amended,  unless  the  new 
act  contains  the  section  or  sections  so  amended,  i  nd  the  section  of  sec- 
tions so  amended  shall  be  repealed.  The  presiding  officer  of  each  house 
shall  sign,  in  the  presence  of  the  house  over  which  he  presides,  while 
the  sime  is  in  session  and  capable  of  transacting  business,  all  bills  and 
concurrent  resolutions  passed  by  the  legislature. 

Members  Privileged  From  Arrest. 
Sec.  12.^  Members  of  the  legislature,  in  all  cases  except  treason,  felony, 
or  br  ach  of  the  peace,  shall  be  privileged  fr  m  arrest  during  the  session 
of  the  legislature,  and  for  fifteen  days  before  the  commencment  and  after 
the  termination  thereof. 

Members  Not  to  Keeeive  any  Civil  Appointment  or  be  Interested 
in  any  Contract. 
Sec.  13.  No  person  elected  to  the  legislature  shall  receive  any  civil  >  p- 
pointment  within  this  state,  from  he  governor  and  senate,  during  the 
term  for  which  he  has  been  elected.  And  all  such  appointments,  and  all 
votes  given  for  any  such  member  for  any  such  office  or  appointment, 
shall  be  void.  Nor  shall  any  member  of  the  legislature,  or  any  state  of- 
ficer, be  interested,  either  directly  or  indirectly,  in  any  contract  with  the 
state,  county,  or  city,  authorized  by  any  law  passed  during  the  term  for. 
which  he  shall  have  been  elected,  or  within  one  year  after  the  expiration 
thereof. 

Of  Impeacliment. 
Sec.  14.    The  senate  and  house  of  representatives,  in  join    convention, 
shall  have  the  sole  power  of  impeachment   but  a  majority  of  the  mem- 


CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  STATE  OF  NEBRASKA.  33 

bers  elected,  must  concur  therein.  Upon  the  entertainment  of  a  resolu- 
tion to  impeach  by  either  house,  the  other  house  shall  at  once  be  notified 
thereof ,  and  the  two  houses  shall  meet  in  joint  convention  fo.  the  pur- 
pose of  acting  upon  such  resolution  within  three  days  of  such  notifica- 
tion. A  notice  of  an  impeachment  of  any  offtcer,  other  than  a  justice  of 
the  supreme  court,  shall  be  forthwith  served  upon  the  chief  justice  by 
the  secretary  of  the  senate,  who  shall  thereupon  call  a  session  of  the 
supreme  court  to  meet  at  the  capital  within  ten  days  after  such  notice  to 
try  the  impeachment.  A  notice  of  an  impea^  hment  of  a  justice  of  the 
supreme  court  shall  be  served  by  the  secretary  of  the  senate  upon  the 
judge  of  the  judicial  district  within  which  the  capital  is  located,  and  he 
thereupon  shall  notify  all  the  judges  of  the  district  court  in  the  state  to 
meet  with  him  within  thirty  days  at  the  capital,  to  sit  as  a  court  to  try 
such  impeachment,  which  court  shall  organize  by  electing  one  of  its 
number  to  preside.  No  person  shall  be  convicted  without  the  concur- 
rence of  two-thirds  of  the  members  of  the  court  of  impeachment,  but 
judgment  in  case  of  impeachment  shall  not  •  xtend  further  than  remov- 
al from  office  and  disqualification  to  hold  and  enjoy  any  offtce  of  honor, 
profit  or  tiust  in  this  state,  but  the  party  impeached,  whether  convicted 
(ir  acquit  ed,  shall  nevertheless  be  liable  to  prosecution  and  punishment 
according  to  law.  No  ofRcer  shall  exercise  his  official  duties  after  he 
shall  have  been  impeached  and  notified  thereof  until  he  shall  have  been 
acquitted.. 

liOcal  and  Special  Legislation  Prohibited. 

Sfic.  15.  The  legislature  shall  not  pass  local  or  special  laws  in  any  of 
the  following  cases,  that  is  to  say: 

For  granting  divorces. 

Changing  the  names  of  persons  and  places. 

Laying  out  opening,  altering,  and  working  roads  and  highwaj's. 

Vacating  roads.town  plats,  streets   alleys,  and  public  grounds. 

Locating  or  changing  county  seats. 

Regulating  county  and  township  offices. 

Regulating  the  practice  of  courts  of  justice. 

Regulating  the  jurisdiction  and  duties  of  justices  of  the  peace,  police 
magistrates,  and  constables. 

Providing  for  changes  of  venu  in  civil  and  criminal  cases. 

Incorporating  cities,  towns  and  villages,  or  changing  or  amending  the 
charter  of  any  town,  city  or  village. 

Providing  for  the  election  of  officers  in  townships,  incorporated  towns 
or  cities. 

Summoning  or  empaneling  grand  or  petit  juries. 

Providing  for  the  bonding  of  cities,  towns,  precincts,  school  districts, 
or  other  municipalities. 

Providing  for  the  management  of  public  schools. 

Regulating  the  interest  on  money. 

The  opening  and  conducting  of  any  election,  or  aesignating  the  piace 
of  voting. 

The  sale  or  mortgage  of  real  estate  belonging  to  minors  or  others  under 
disability. 

The  protection  of  game  or  fish. 

Chartering  or  licensing  ferries  or  toll  bridges. 

Remitting  fines,  penalties,  or  forfeitures. 


34  CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  STATE  OF  NEBRASKA. 

Creating,  increasing,  and  decreasing  fees,  percentage,  or  allowances  of 
public  officers  during  the  terra  for  which  said  officers  are  elected  or  ap- 
pointed. 

Changing  the  law  of  descent. 

Granting  to  any  corporation,  association,  or  individual  the  right  to  lay 
down  railroad  tracks,  or  amending  existing  charters  for  such  purpose. 

Granting  to  any  corporation,  association,  or  indivdual  any  special  or 
exclusive  privileges,  immunity,  or  franchise  whatever.  In  all  other 
cases  where  a  general  law  can  be  made  applicable,  no  special  law  shall  be 
enacted. 

£xtra  Compensation  to  Public  Officers  Prohibited. 

Sec.  16.  The  legislature  shall  never  grant  any  extra  compensation  to 
any  public  officer,  agent,  servant,  or  contractor  after  the  services  shall 
have  been  rendered,  or  the  contract  entered  into.  Nor  shall  the  com- 
pensation of  any  public  officer  be  increased  or  dimished  during  his  term 
of  office. 

Of  Salt  Springs. 
Sec.  17.    The  legislature  shall  never  alienate  salt  springs  belonging  to 
this  state. 

State  Lands  not  to  be  Donated. 

Sec.  18.  Lands  under  the  control  of  the  state  shall  never  be  donated  to 
railroad  companies,  private  corporations,  or  individuals. 
Apiiropriations. 
Sec.  19.  Each  legislature  shall  make  appropriations  for  the  expenses 
of  the  government  until  the  expiration  of  the  first  fiscal  quarter  after  the 
adjournment  of  the  next  regular  session,  and  all  appropriations  shall  end 
wiih  such  fiscal  quarter.  And  whenever  it  is  deemed  necessary  to  make 
further  appropriations  for  deficiencies,  the  same  shall  require  a  two- 
thirds  vote  of  all  the  members  elected  to  each  house,  and  shall  not  ex- 
ceed the  amount  of  revenue  authorized  by  law  to  be  raised  in  such  time. 
Bills  making  appropriations  for  the  pay  of  members  and  officers  of  the 
legislature,  and  for  the  salaries  of  the  officers  of  the  government  shall 
contain  no  provision  on  any  other  subject. 

Vacancies  in  State  Offices. 
Sec.  20.    All  offices  created  by  this  constitution  shall  become  vacant  by 
the  death  of  the  incumbent,  by  removal  from  the  state,  resignation,  con- 
viction of  a  felony,  impeachment,  or  becoming  of  unsound  mind.     And 
the  legislature  shall  provide  by  general  law  for  thefillingof  such  vacancy 
when  no  provision  is  made  for  that  purpose  in  this  constitution. 
Liotteries  Prohibited. 
Sec.  21.    The  legislature  shall  not  authorize  any  games  of  chance,   lot- 
tery, or  gift  enterprise,  under  any  pretense,  or  for  any  purpose  whatever. 
Incidental  Expenses. 
Sec.  22.    No  allowance  shall  be  made  for  the  incidental  expenses  of  any 
state  officer  except  the  same  be  made  by  general  appropriation,  and  up- 
on an  account  specifying  each  item. 

How  Money  Drawn  From  the  Treasury. 
No  money  shall  be  drawn  from  the  treasury  except  in  pursuance  of  a 
specific  appropriation  made  by  law,  and  on  a  presentation  of  a  warrant 
issued  by  the  auditor  thereon,  and  no  money  shall  be  diverted  from  any 
appropriation  made  for  any  purpose,  or  taken  from  any  fund  whatever, 
either  by  joint  or  separate  resolution. 


CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  STATE  OF  NEBRASKA.  8* 

Auditor  to  Publish  Statement. 

The  auditor  shall,  Avithln,  sixty  days  after  the  adjournment  of  each  ses- 
sion of  the  legislature,  prepare  and  publish  a  full  statement  of  all  moneys 
expended  at  such  session,  specifying  the  amount  of  each  item,   and  to 
whom  and  for  what  paid.        State  v.  McBride,  6  Neb.,  50G. 
Members  oi  Legislature  not  Liable  for  Words  Spoken   in  Debate. 

Sec.  23.  No  member  of  the  legislature  shall  be  liable  in  any  civil  or- 
criminal  action  whatever  for  words  spoken  in  debate. 

Act  When  Take  Effect— How  Published. 

Sec.  24.  No  act  shall  take  effect  until  three  calendar  months  after  the 
adjournment  of  the  session  at  which  it  passed,  unless,  in  case  of  emer- 
gency (to  be  expressed  in  the  preamble  or  body  of  the  act)  the  legisla- 
ture Fhall,  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  all  the  members  elected  to  each 
house,  otherwise  direct.  All  laws  shall  be  published  in  book  form  with- 
in sixty  days  after  the  adjournment  of  each  session,  and  distributed 
among  the  several  counties  in  such  manner  as  the  legislature  may  pro- 
vide. 

ARTICLE  IV. 

Legislative  Apportionment. 

(Present  apportionment  given  in  another  place.) 
ARTICLE  V. 
Executive  Department. 

Section  1.  The  executive  department  shall  consist  of  a  governor, 
lieutenant-governor,  secretary  of  state,  auditor  of  public  accounts,  treas- 
urer, superintendent  of  public  instruction,  attorney-general,  and  com- 
missioner of  public  lands  and  buildings,  who  s^hall  each  hold  his  office 
for  the  term  of  two  years,  from  the  first  Thursday  after  the  first  Tuesday 
in  January  next  after  his  election,  and  until  his  successor  is  elected  and 
qualified;  Provided, /loit^cvcr,  that  the  first  election  of  said  officers  shall 
be  held  on  the  Tuesday  succeeding  the  first  Monday  in  November,  1876, 
and  each  succeeding  election  shall  be  held  at  the  same  relative  time  in 
each  even  year  thereafter.  The  governor,  secretary  of  state,  auditor  of 
public  accounts,  and  treasurer,  shall  reside  at  the  seat  of  government 
during  their  terms  of  office,  and  keep  the  public  records,  books,  and 
papers  there,  and  shall  perform  such  duties  as  may  be  required  by  law. 
Governor— Eligibility. 

Sec.  2.  No  person  shall  be  eligible  to  the  office  of  governor,  or  lieuten- 
ant-governor, who  shall  not  have  attained  the  age  of  thirty  years,  and 
been  for  two  years  next  preceding  his  election  a  citizen  of  the  United 
states  and  of  this  state.  None  of  the  officers  of  the  executive  department 
shall  be  eligible  to  any  other  state  office  during  the  period  for  which  they 
shall  have  been  elected. 

Treasurer  Ineligible  for  Third  Term. 

Sec.  3.  The  treasurer  shall  be  ineligible  to  the  office  of  treasurer  for 
two  years  next  after  the  expiration  of  two  consecutive  terms  for  which 
he  was  elected. 

Election  Returns— How  Canvassed. 

Sec.  4.  The  returns  of  every  election  for  the  officers  of  the  executive 
department  shall  be  sealed  up  and  transmitted  by  the  returning  officers 
to  the  secretary  of  state,  directed  to  the  speaker  of  the  house  of  represen- 
tives  ,  who  shall,  immediately  after  the  organization  of  the  house,  and 
before  pi oceeding  to  other  business,  open  end  publish  the  same  in  the 
presence  of  a  majority  of  each  house  of  the  legislature,  who  shall  fo 


CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  STATE  OF  NEBRASKA. 


that  purpose  assemble  in  the  hall  of  the  house  of  representatives.  The 
person  having  the  highest  nnmber  of  votes  for  either  of  said  otKces  shall 
1). 'declared  duly  elected;  but  if  two  or  more  have  an  equal  and  the 
Itighest  number  of  votes,  the  legislature  shall  by  joint  vote,  choose  one 
of  such  pesons  for  said  office.  Contested  elections  for  al!  of  said  offices 
shall  be  determined  by  both  houses  of  the  legislature,  by  joint  vote,  in 
such  manner  as  may  be  prescribed  bv  law. 

Liable  to  Impeachment. 

Sec.  5.  All  civil  officers  of  this  state  shall  be  liable  to  impeachment  for 
any  misdemeanor  in  office. 

Supreme  Executive  Power. 

Sec.  6.    The  supreme  executive  power  shall  be  vested  in  the  governor, 
who  shall  take  care  that  the  laws  be  faithfully  executed. 
Governor  to  deliver  Message. 

Sec.  7.  The  governor  shall,  at  the  commencement  of  t  ach  session,  and 
at  the  close  ol  his  term  of  office,  and  whenever  the  legislature  may  re- 
quire give  to  the  legislature  information  by  message  of  the  condition  of 
the  state,  and  shall  recommend  such  measures  as  he  hall  deem  expedi- 
e  t.  lie  shall  account  to  the  legislature,  r.nd  accompany  his  message 
with  a  statement  of  all  moneys  received  and  paid  out  by  him  fr./m  any 
funds  subject  to  his  order,  with  vouchers,  and,  at  the  commencement  of 
each  regular  session,  present  estimates  of  the  amount  of  money  required 
to  be  raised  by  taxation  for  all  purposes. 

Governor  May  Convene  the  Liegislature.. 

Sec.  8.  The  governor  mj  y,  on  extraordinary  occasions  convene  the 
legislature  by  proclamalio  i,  stating  therein  the  purpose  for  which  they 
are  convened,  and  the  legislature  shall  enter  upon  no  business  except 
that  for  which  they  were  called  together. 

In  CasR  of  Disagret-meut  May  Adjourn  the  Legislature. 

Sec.  9.  In  case  of  a  disagroement  between  the  two  hoirses  with  respect 
to  the  time  of  adjournment,  the  governor  may,  on  the  same  being  ceiti- 
fied  to  him  by  the  house  first  moving  the  adjourhment,  adjourn  the  leg- 
islature to  such  time  as  he  thinks  proper,  not  beyond  the  first  day  of  the 
next  regular  session. 

Governor  Appoint  and  Nominate  Officers. 

Sec.  10.  The  governor  shall  nominate  an  J,  by  an  1  with  the  advice  and 
consent  of  the  senate  (expressed  by  a  majority  of  all  the  senators  elected 
voting  by  yeas  and  nays),  appoint  all  officers  whose  offices  are  established 
by  this  constitution,  or  which  may  be  created  by  law,  and  whose  appoint- 
ment and  election  is  not  otherwise  by  law  or  herein  provided  for;  and  no 
such  officer  shall  be  appointed  or  elected  by  the  legislature. 

In  Case  of  Vacancy  During  the  Recess  of  Senate. 

Sec.  11.  In  case  of  a  vacancy  during  the  recess  of  the  senate  in  any 
office  which  is  not  elective,  the  governor  shall  make  a  temporary  appoint- 
TOient  until  the  next  meeting  of  tlie  senate,  when  he  shall  nominate  some 
person  to  fill  such  office;  and  any  person  so  nominated,  who  is  confirmed 
by  the  senate  (a  majority  of  all  the  senators  elected  concurring  l^y  voting 
yeas  and  nays),  shall  hold  his  office  during  the  remainder  of  the  term,  and 
until  his  successor  shall  be  appointed  and  quatified.  No  person,  after 
being  rejected  by  the  senate,  shall  be  again  nominated  for  the  same  office 
at  the  same  session,  unless  at  request  of  the  senate,  or  be  appointed  to  the 
same  office  during  the  recess  of  the  legislature. 


CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  ^TATE  OP  NEBRASKA.  37 

Of  Power  to  Remove. 

Sec.  12.  The  governor  shall  have  power  to  remove  any  officer  whom  he 
may  appoint,  in  case  of  incompetency,  neglect  of  duty,  malfeasance  in 
office ;  and  he  may  declare  his  office  vacant,  and  fill  the  same  as  herein 
provided  in  other  cases  of  vacancy. 

Of  Power  to  Grant  Reprieves,  Pardons,  etc. 

Sec.  13.  The  governor  shall  have  the  power  to  grant  reprieves,  commuta- 
tions, and  pardons  after  conviction  for  all  offenses,  except  treason  and 
cases  of  impeachment,  upon  such  conditions  and  with  such  restrictions 
and  limitations  as  he  may  think  proper,  subject  to  such  regulations  as 
may  be  provided  by  law  relative  to  the  manner  of  applying  for  pardons. 
Upon  conviction  for  treason,  he  shall  have  power  to  suspend  the  execu- 
tion of  the  sentence  until  the  case  shall  be  reported  to  the  legislature  at 
its  next  session,  when  the  legislature  shall  either  pardon  or  commute  the 
sentence,  direct  the  execution  of  the  sentence,  or  grant  a  further  reprieve. 
He  shall  communicate  to  the  legislature,  at  every  regular  session,  each 
case  of  reprieve,  commutation  or  pardon  granted,  stating  the  name  of  the 
convict,  the  crime  of  which  he  was  convicted,  the  sentence  and  its  date, 
and  the  date  of  the  reprieve,  commutation  or  pardon. 
Commander-in-chief. 

Sec.  14.  The  governor  shall  be  commander-in-chief  of  the  military  and 
naval  forces  of  the  state  (except  when  they  shall  be  called  into  the  service 
or  the  United  States),  and  may  call  out  the  same  to  execute  the  laws,  sup- 
press insurrection,  and  repel  invasion. 

Of  the  Veto  Power. 

Sec.  15.  Every  bill  passed  by  the  legislature,  before  it  becomes  a  law, 
and  every  order,  resolution,  or  vote  to  which  the  concurrence  of  both 
houses  may  be  necessary  (except  on  questions  of  adjournment),  shall  be 
presented  to  the  governor.  If  he  approve  he  shall  sign  it,  and  thereupon 
it  shall  become  a  law;  but  if  he  do  not  approve  he  shall  return  it,  with 
his  objections,  to  the  house  in  which  it  shall  have  originated,  which 
house  shall  enter  the  objections  at  large  upon  its  journal,  and  proceed  to 
reconsider  the  bill.  If  then  three-fifths  of  the  members  elected  agree  to 
pass  the  same,  it  shall  be  sent,  together  with  the  objections,  to  the  other 
house,  by  which  it  shall  likewise  be  reconsidered;  and  if  approved  by 
three-fifths  of  the  members  elected  to  that  house  it  shall  become  a  law, 
notwithstanding  the  objections  of  the  governor.  In  all  such  cases  the 
vote  of  each  house  shall  be  determined  by  yeas  and  nays,  to  be  entered 
upon  the  journal.  Any  bill  which  shall  not  be  returned  by  the  governor 
within  five  days  (Sundays  excepted)  after  it  shall  have  been  presented  to 
him,  shall  become  a  law  in  like  manner  as  if  he  had  signed  it,  unless  the 
legislature  by  their  adjournment,  prevent  its  return;  in  which  case  it 
shall  be  filed,  with  his  objections,  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of  state 
-within  five  days  after  such  adjournment,  or  become  a  law.  The  governor 
may  disapprove  any  item  or  items  of  appropriation  contained  in  bills 
passed  by  the  legislature,  and  the  item  or  items  so  disapproved  shall  be 
stricken  therefrom,  unless  repassed  in  the  manner  herein  prescribed  in 
cases  of  disapproval  of  bills. 

In  Case  of  Death. 

Sec.  16.  In  case  of  the  death,  impeachment,  and  notice  thereof  to  the 
accused,  failure  to  qualify,  resignation,  absence  from  the  state,  or  other 
disability  of  the  governor,  the  powers,  iiuties  and  emoluments  of  the  of- 


CONSriTUTION  OF  THE  STATE  OF  NEBRASKA. 


^ce  for  the  residue  of  the  term,  or  until  the  disability  shall  be  removed, 
shall  devolve  upon  the  lieutenant-governor. 

Relating  to  the  Lieutenant  Governor. 

Sec.  17.  The  lieutenant-governor  shall  be  president  of  the  senate,  and 
shall  vote  only  when  the  senate  is  equally  divided. 

Sec.  18.  If  there  be  no  lieutenant-governor,  or  if  the  lieutenant-gover- 
nor, for  any  of  the  causes  specified  in  section  sixteen  of  this  article,  be- 
come incapable  of  performing  the  duties  of  the  office,  the  president  of  the 
senate  shall  act  as  governor  until  the  vacancy  is  filled  or  the  disability 
removed;  and  if  the  president  of  ths  senate,  for  any  of  the  above  named 
causes,  shall  become  incapable  of  performing  the  duties  of  governor,  the 
same  shall  devolve  upon  the  speaker  of  the  house  of  representatives. 
Board  of  Public  liands  and  Buildings. 

Sec.  19.  The  commissioner  of  public  lands  and  buildings,  the  secretary 
of  state,  treasurer,  and  attorney-general,  shall  form  a  board,  which  shall 
have  general  supervision  and  control  of  all  the  buildings,  grounds,  and 
lands  of  the  state,  the  state  prison,  asylums,  and  all  other  institutions 
thereof ,  except  those  for  educational  purposes ;  and  shall  perform  such 
duties  and  be  subject  to  such  rules  and  regulations  as  may  be  prescribed 
by  law.    State  v.  Bacon,  6  Neb.  286. 

Vacancies  in  tlie  State  Offices,  How  Filled. 

Sec.  20.  If  the  ofllce  of  auditor  of  public  accounts,  treasurer,  secretary 
of  state,  attorney-general,  commissioner  of  public  land-  and  buildings, 
or  superintendent  of  public  instruction,  shall  be  vacated  by  death,  re- 
signation, or  otherwise,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  governor  to  fill  the 
same  by  appointment;  and  the  appointee  shall  hold  his  office  until  his 
successor  shall  be  elected  and  qualified  in  such  manner  as  may  be  pro- 
vided by  law 

Accounts   to   be    Kept    and   Semi-Annual   Reports   made    to  the 
Governor. 

Sec  21.  An  account  shall  be  kept  by  the  officers  of  the  executive 
department,  and  of  all  the  public  institutions  of  the  state,  of  all  moneys 
received  or  disbursed  by  them  severally  from  all  sources,  and  for  every 
service  performed,  and  a  semi-annual  report  thereof  be  made  to  the 
governor,  under  oath ;  and  any  officer  who  makes  a  false  report  shall  be 
guilty  of  perjury,  and  punished  accordingly. 

Reports  to  be  Made  and  Transmitted  to  the  lieglslature. 

Sec.  22.  The  officers  of  the  executive  department  and  of  all  the  public 
institutions  of  the  state  shall,  at  least  ten  days  preceding  each  regular 
session  of  the  legislature,  severally  report  to  the  governor,  who  shall 
transmit  such  reports  to  the  legislature,  together  with  the  reports  of  the 
judges  of  the  supreme  court,  of  defects  in  the  constitution  and  laws,  and 
the  governor,  or  either  house  of  the  legislature,  may  at  any  time  require 
information  in  witing,  under  oath,  from  the  officers  of  the  executive 
department  and  all  officers  and  managers  of  state  institutions,  upon  any 
subject  relating  to  the  condition,  management,  and  expenses  of  their 
respective  offices. 

The  Great  Seal. 

Sec.  23.  There  shall  be  a  seal  of  the  state,  which  shall  be  called  the 
"Great  seal  of  the  state  of  Nebraska,"  which  shall  be  kept  by  the  secre- 
tary of  state,  and  used  by  him  officially,  as  directed  by  law. 


CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  STATE  OF  NEBRASKA. 


Salaries. 

Sec.  24,  The  salaries  of  the  governor,  auditor  of  public  accounts,  and 
treasurer  shall  be  two  thousand  five  hundred  dollars  (|2,500)  each  per  an- 
num, and  of  the  secretary  of  state,  attorney-general,  superintendent  of 
public  instruction,  and  commissioner  of  public  lands  and  buildings,  two 
thousand  dollars  (?2,000)  each  per  annum.  The  lieutenant-governor  shall 
receive  twice  the  compensation  of  a  senator,  and  after  the  adoption  of 
this  constitution  they  shall  not  receive  to  their  own  use  any  fees,  costs, 
interest  upon  public  moneys  in  their  hands  or  under  their  control,  per- 
quisites of  office,  or  other  compensation,  and  all  fees  that  may  hereafter 
be  payable  by  law  for  services  performed  by  any  officer  provided  for  in 
this  article  of  the  constitution,  shall  be  paid  in  advance  into  the  state 
treasury.  There  shall  be  no  allowance  for  clerk  hire  in  the  offices  of  the 
superintendent  of  public  instruction  and  attorney-general. 
Officers  to  Give  Bond. 

Sec.  25.  The  officers  mentioned  in  this  article  shall  give  bonds  in  not 
less  than  double  the  amount  of  money  that  may  come  into  their  hands, 
and  in  no  case  in  less  than  the  sum  of  fifty  thousand  dollars,  with  such 
provisions  as  to  sureties  and  the  approval  thereof,  and  for  the  increase  of 
the  penalty  of  such  bonds,  as  may  be  prescribed  by  law. 
No  new  Offices  to  be  Created. 

Sec.  26.  No  other  executive  state  office  shall  be  continued  or  created, 
and  the  duties  now  devolving  upon  officers  not  provided  for  by  this  con- 
stitution shall  be  performed  by  the  officers  herein  created.  State  v.  Wes- 
ton, h  Neb.,  234. 

ARTICLE  VI. 

The  Judicial  Department. 

Sec.  1.    The  judicial  power  of  this  state  shall  be  vested  in  a  supreme 
court,  districts  courts,  county  courts,  justices  of  the  peace,  police  magis- 
trates, and  in  such  other  courts  inferior  to  the  district  courts  as  may  be 
created  by  law  for  cities  and  incorporated  towns. 
The  Supreme  Court. 

Sec.  2.  The  supreme  court  shall  consist  of  three  judges,  a  majority  of 
whom  shall  be  necessary  to  form  a  quorum  or  to  pronounce  a  decision. 
It  shall  have  original  jurisdiction  in  cases  relating  to  the  revenue,  civil 
cases  in  which  the  state  shall  be  a  party,  mandamus,  quo  warranto, 
habeas  corpus,  and  such  appellate  jurisdiction  as  may  be  provided  by 
law. 

Sec.  3.  At  least  two  terms  of  the  supreme  court  shall  be  held  each  year 
at  the  seat  of  government. 

Sec.  4.  The  judges  of  the  supreme  court  shall  be  elected  by  the  elec- 
tors of  the  state  at  large,  and  their  terms  of  office,  except  of  those  chosen 
at  the  first  election,  as  hereinafter  provided,  shall  be  six  years. 

Sec.  5.  The  judges  of  the  supreme  court  shall,  immediately  after  the 
first  election  under  this  constitution,  be  classified  by  lot,  so  that  one  shall 
hold  his  office  for  the  term  of  two  years,  one  for  the  term  of  four  years, 
and  one  for  the  term  of  six  years. 

Sec.  6.  The  judge  of  the  supreme  court  having  the  shortest  term  to 
serve,  not  holding  his  office  by  appointment  or  elected  to  fill  a  vacancy, 
shall  be  the  chief  justice,  and  as  such  shall  preside  at  all  terms  of  the 
supreme  court;  and  in  case  of  his  absence,  the  judge  having  in  like  man- 
ner the  next  shortest  term  to  serve  shall  preside  in  his  stead. 


40  CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  STATE  OF  NEBRASKA. 

Sec.  7.  No  person  shall  be  eligible  to  the  office  of  judge  of  the  supreme 
court  unless  he  shall  be  at  least  thirty  years  of  age,  and  a  citizen  of  the 
United  States;  nor  unless  he  shall  have  resided  in  this  state  at  least  three 
years  next  preceeding  his  election. 

,  Sec.  8.  There  shjall  be  appointed  by  the  supreme  court  a  reporter,  who 
shall  also  act  as  clerk  of  the  supreme  court  and  librarian  of  the  law  and 
miscellaneous  library  of  the  state,  whose  term  of  office  shall  be  four  years, 
unless  sooner  removed  by  the  court,  whose  salary  shall  be  fixed  by  law, 
not  to  exceed  fifteen  hundred  dollars  per  annum.  The  copyright  of  the 
state  reports  shall  forever  belong  to  the  state. 

District  Court  and  Judgfes. 

Sec.  9.  The  district  courts  shall  have  both  chancery  and  common  law 
jurisdiction,  and  such  other  jurisdiction  as  the  legislature  may  provide, 
and  the  judges  thereof  may  admit  persons  charged  with  felony  to  a  plea 
of  guilty,  and  pass  such  sentence  as  may  be  prescribed  by  law.  Turner  v. 
Althaus,  6 Neb.,  54. 

Sec.  10.  The  state  shall  be  divided  into  six  judicial  districts,  in  each 
of  which  shall  be  elected  by  the  electors  thereof,  one  judge,  who  shall  be 
judge  of  the  district  court  therein,  and  whose  term  of  office  shall  be  four 
years. 

Sec  11.  The  legislature,  whenever  two-thirds  of  the  members  elected 
to  each  house  shall  concur  therein,  may,  in  or  after  the  year  one  thou- 
sand eight  hundred  and  eighty,  and  not  oftener  than  once  in  every  four 
years,  increase  the  number  of  judges  of  the  district  courts,  and  the  judi- 
cial districts  of  the  state.  Such  districts  shall  be  formed  of  compact  ter- 
ritory, and  bounded  by  county  lines,  and  such  increase,  or  any  change 
in  the  boundaries  of  a  district,  shall  not  vacate  the  office  of  any  judge. 

Sec.  12.  The  judges  of  the  district  courts  may  hold  courts  for  each 
other,  and  shall  do  so  when  required  by  law. 

Salaries  of  Supreme  and  District  Judg:es. 

Sec  13.  The  judges  of  the  supreme  and  dis4rict  courts  shall  each  re- 
ceive a  salary  of  |2,500  per  annum,  payable  quarterly. 

Sec  14.    No  judge  of  the  supreme  or  district  courts  shall  receive  any 
other  compensation,  perquisite,  or  benefit  for  or  on  account  of  his  olfice 
in  any  form  whatever,  nor  act  as  attorney  or  counselor-at-law  in  any 
manner  whatever,  nor  shall  any  salary  be  paid  to  any  county  judge. 
County  Courts  and  Judges. 

Sec.  15.  There  shall  be  elected  in  and  for  each  organized  county  one 
judge,  who  shall  be  judge  of  the  county  court  of  such  county,  and  whose 
term  of  office  shall  be  two  years. 

Sec  16.  County  courts  shall  be  courts  of  record,  and  shall  have  orig- 
inal jurisdiction  in  all  matters  of  probate,  settlement  of  estates  of  de- 
ceased persons,  appointment  of  guardians  and  settlement  of  their  ac- 
counts in  all  matters  relating  to  apprentices;  and  such  other  jurisdiction 
as  may  be  given  by  general  law.  But  they  shall  not  have  juris'diction  in 
criminal  cases  in  which  the  punishment  may  exceed  six  months  impris- 
onment, or  a  fine  of  over  five  hundred  dollars;  nor  in  actions  in  which 
title  to  real  estate  is  sought  to  be  recovered,  or  may  be  drawn  in  question ; 
nor  in  actions  on  mortgages  or  contracts  for  the  conveyauce  of  real  es- 
tate; nor  in  civil  actions  where  the  debt  or  sum  claimed  shall  exceed 
one  thousand  dollars. 


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Appeals. 

Sec.  17.  Appeals  to  the  district  courts  from  the  judgments  of  county- 
courts  shall  be  allowed  in  all  criminal  cases,  on  application  of  the  de- 
fendant; and  in  all  civil  cases,  on  application  of  either  party,  and  in  such 
other  cases  as  may  be  provided  by  law. 

Justices  of  the  Peace  and  Police  Magistrates. 

Sec.  18.  Justices  of  the  peace  and  police  magistrates  shall  be  elected  in 
and  for  such  districts,  and  have  and  exercise  such  jurisdiction  as  may  be 
provided  by  law;  Provided,  That  no  justice  of  the  peace  shall  have  juris- 
diction of  any  civil  case  where  the  amount  in  controversy  shall  exceed 
two  hundred  dollars;  nor  in  a  criminal  case  where  the  punishment  may 
exceed  three  months'  imprisonment,  or  a  fine  of  over  one  hundred  dol- 
lars; nor  in  any  matter  wherein  the  title  or  boundaries  of  land  may  be 
in  dispute. 

Of  I^aws  Relating:  to  Courts. 

Sec.  19.  All  laws  relating  to  courts  shall  be  general  and  of  uniform  op- 
eration, and  the  organization,  jurisdiction,  powers  proceedings,  and  prac- 
tice of  all  the  courts  of  the  same  class  of  grade,  so  far  as  regulated  by  law 
and  the  force  and  effect  of  the  proceedings,  judgments  and  degrees  of  such 
courts  severally,  shall  be  uniform. 

Term  of  Office. 

Sec.  20.  All  officers  provided  for  in  this  article  shall  hold  their  offices 
until  their  successors  shall  be  qualified,  and  they  shall  respectively  reside 
in  the  district,  county,  or  precinct,  for  which  they  shall  be  elected  or  ap- 
pointed. The  terms  of  office  of  all  such  officers,  when  not  otherwise  pre- 
scribed in  this  article,  shall  be  two  years.  All  officers,  when  not  other- 
wise provided  for  in  this  article,  shall  perform  such  duties  and  receive 
such  compensation  as  may  be  provided  by  law. 
Vacancies,  Hove  filled. 

Sec.  21.  In  case  the  office  of  any  judge  of  the  supreme  court  or  of  any 
district  court  shall  become  vacant  before  the  expiration  of  the  regular 
term  for  which  he  was  elected,  the  vacancy  shall  be  filled  by  appoint- 
ment by  the  governor,  until  a  succeesor  shall  be  elected  and  qualified, 
and  such  successor  shall  be  elected  for  the  unexpired  term  at  the  first 
general  election  that  occurs  more  than  thirty  days  after  the  vacancy 
shall  have  happened.  Vacancies  in  all  other  elective  offices  provided  for 
in  this  article  shall  be  filled  by  election,  but  when  the  unexpired  term 
does  not  exceed  one  year  the  vacancy  may  be  filled  by  appointment,  in 
such  manner  as  the  legislature  may  provide. 

State  May  Sue  and  be  Sued. 

Sec.  22.  The  state  may  sue  and  be  sued,  and  the  legislature  shall  pro- 
vide by  law  in  what  manner  and  in  what  courts  suits  shall  be  brought. 
State  V.  Stout,  l^eb.ym. 

Jurisdiction  at  Chambers. 

Sec.  23.    The  several  judges  of  the  courts  of  record  shall  have  such  juris- 
diction at  chambers  as  may  be  provided  by  law. 
Process  Shall  Run  etc. 

Sec.  24.  All  process  shall  run  in  the  name  of  "The  State  of  Nebraska," 
and  all  prosecutions  shall  be  carried  on  in  the  name  of  "The  State  of  Ne- 
braska." 


42  CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  STATE  OF  NEBRASKA. 

ARTICLE  V  J  I. 

Right  of  Suffrage. 

Sec.  1.  Every  male  person  of  the  age  of  twenty-one  years  or  upwards, 
belonging  to  either  of  the  following  classes,  who  shall  have  resided  in  the 
state  six  months,  and  in  the  county,  precinct,  or  ward  for  the  time  pro- 
vided by  law,  shall  be  an  elector. 

First    Citizens  of  the  United  States. 

Second.  Persons  of  foreign  birth  who  shall  have  declared  their  inten- 
tion to  become  citizens  conformably  to  the  laws  of  the  United  States  on 
the  subject  of  naturalization,  at  least  thirty  days  prior  to  an  election. 

Sec.  2.  No  person  shall  be  qualified  to  vote  who  is  non  compos  mentis, 
or  who  has  been  convicted  of  treason,  or  felony  under  the  law  of  the 
state,  or  of  the  United  States,  unless  restored  to  civil  rights. 

Sec.  3.  Every  elector  in  the  actual  military  service  of  the  United  States 
or  of  this  states,  and  not  in  the  regular  army,  may  exercise  the  right  of 
suffrage  at  such  place  and  under  such  regulations  as  may  be  provided  by 
law. 

Sec.  4,  No  soldier,  seaman,  or  marine  in  the  army  and  navy  of  the 
United  States  shall  be  deemed  a  resident  of  the  state  in  consequence  of 
being  stationed  therein. 

Sec.  5.  Electors  shall  in  all  cases  except  treason,  felony,  or  breach  of 
the  peace,  be  privileged  from  arrest  during  their  attendance  at  elections, 
and  going  to  and  returning  from  the  same,  and  no  elector  shall  be  ob- 
liged to  do  military  duty  on  the  days  of  election  except  in  time  of  war  and 
public  danger. 

Sec.  6.    All  votes  shall  be  by  ballot. 

ARTICLE  VIII. 
Education. 

Sec.  1.  The  governor,  secretary  of  state,  treasurer,  attorney  general, 
wnd  commissioner  of  public  lands  and  buildings,  shall,  under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  legislature,  constitute  a  board  of  commissioners  for  the  sale, 
leasing,  and  general  management  of  all  lands  and  funds  set  apart  for  ed- 
QCational  purposes,  and  for  the  investment  of  school  funds  in  such  man- 
ner as  may  be  presribed  by  law. 

Sec.  2.  All  lands,  money,  or  other  property  granted  or  bequeathed  or 
in  any  manner  conveyed  to  this  state  for  educational  purposes,  [shall  be 
used  and  expended  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  such  grant,  bequest, 
or  conveyance. 

Perpetual  Funds  for  School  Purposes. 

Sec.  3.  The  following  are  hereby  declared  to  be  perpetual  funds  for 
common  school  purposes,  of  which  the  annual  interest  or  income  only  can 
be  appropriated,  to- wit: 

First,  Such  percentum  as  has  been  or  may  hereafter  be  granted  by  con- 
gress on  the  sale  of  lands  in  this  state. 

Second.  All  moneys  arising  from  the  sale  or  leasing  of  sections  number 
sixteen  and  thirty-six  in  each  township  in  this  state,  and  the  lands  sel- 
ected or  that  may  be  selected  in  lieu  thereof. 

Third.  The  proceeds  of  all  lands  that  have  been  or  may  hereafter  be 
granted  to  this  state,  where  by  the  terms  and  conditions  of  such  grant 
the  same  are  not  to  be  be  otherwise  appropriated. 

Fourth.  The  net  proceeds  of  lands  and  other  property  and  effects  that 
may  come  to  the  state,  by  escheat  and  forfeiture,  or  from  unclaimed  divi- 


CONSTITUTION  OP  THB  STATE  OF  NEBRASKA. 


dends,  or  distributive  shares  of  the  estates  of  deceased  persons.     State  v. 
i?eeder,  5  Neb.,  103. 

Fifth.    All  moneys,  stocks,  bonds,  lands,  and  other  property  now  belong- 
ing to  the  common  school  fund. 
Other  Funds  for  the  Support  and  Maintenance  of  Common  Schools. 

Sec.  4.  All  other  grants,  gifts,  and  devises  that  have  been  or  may  here- 
after be  made  to  this  state,  and  not  otherwise  appropriated  by  the  term^s 
of  the  grant,  gift,  or  devise,  the  interests  arising  from  all  the  funds  men- 
tioned in  the  preceding  section,  together  with  all  the  rents  of  the  unsold 
school  lauds,  and  such  other  means  as  the  legislature  may  provide,  sholl 
be  exclusively  applied  to  the  support  and  maintenance  of  common  school 
in  each  school  district  in  the  state.    State  v.  McBride,  5  Neb.,  121. 

Sec  5.  All  fines,  penalties,  and  license  moneys  arising  under 
the  general  laws  of  the  state  shall  belong  and  be  paid  over  to  the  counties 
respectively  where  the  same  may  be  levied  or  imposed,  and  all  fines,  pen- 
alties, and  license  moneys  arising  under  the  rules,  by-laws,  or  ordinan- 
ces of  cities,  villages,  towns,  precincts,  or  other  municipal  subdivisions 
less  than  a  county,  shall  belong  and  be  paid  over  to  the  same  respective- 
ly. All  such  fines,  penalties,  and  license  moneys  shall  be  appropriated 
exclusively  to  the  use  and  support  of  common  schools  in  the  respective 
subdivisions  where  the  same  may  accrue.  State  v.  McConnel,  8  Neb.,  28 
Free  Instruction. 

Sec.  6.  The  legislature  shall  provide  for  the  free  instruction  in  tlic  com- 
mon schools  of  this  state  of  all  persons  between  the  ages  of  five  and 
twenty-one  years. 

Equitable  Distribution  of  School  Funds. 

Sec. 7.  Provisions  shall  be  made  by  general  law  for  an  equitable  distri- 
bution of  the  income  of  the  fund  set  apart  for  the  support  of  the  common 
schools,  among  the  several  school  districts  of  the  state,  and  no  appropri- 
tion  shall  be  made  from  said  fund  to  any  district  for  the  year  in  which 
school  is  not  maintained  at  least  three  months. 

Lands  not  to  be  Sold  For  Less  Than — 

Sec.  8.  University,  agricultural  college^  common  school,  or  other  lands, 
which  are  now  held  or  may  hereafter  be  acquired  by  the  state  for  educa- 
tional purposes,  shall  not  be  sold  for  less  than  seven  dollars  per  acre,  nor 
less  than  the  appraised  value. 

To  be  Deemed  Trust  Funds. 

Sec.  9.  All  funds  belonging  to  the  state  for  educational  purposes,  the 
interest  and  income  whereof  only  are  to  be  used,  shall  be  deemed  trust 
funds  held  by  the  state,  and  the  state  shall  supply  all  losses  thereof  that 
may  in  any  manner  accrue,  so  that  the  same  shall  remain  forever  invio- 
late and  undimished ;  and  shall  not  be  invested  or  loaned  except  on 
United  States  or  state  securities,  or  registered  county  bonds  of  this  state; 
and  such  funds,  with  the  interests  and  income  thereof,  are  hereby  sol- 
emnly pledged  for  the  purpose  for  which  they  are  granted  and  set  apart, 
and  shall  not  be  transferred  to  any  other  fund  for  other  uses. 
Six  Regents. 

Sec  10.  The  general  government  of  the  university  of  Nebraska  shall, 
under  the  direction  of  the  legislature,  be  vested  in  a  board  of  six  regents, 
to  be  styled  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university  of  Nebraska,  who  shall 
be  elected  by  the  electors  of  the  state  at  large,  and  their  term  of  office, 
except  those  chosen  at  the  first  election,  as  hereinafter  provided,  shall  be 


44  CONSTITUTION  OP  THE  STATE  OF  NEBRASKA. 

six  years.  Their  duties  and  powers  shall  be  prescribed  by  law ;  and  they 
shall  receive  no  compensation,  but  may  be  reimbursed  their  actual  ex- 
penses incurred  in  the  discharge  of  their  duties. 

No  Sectarian  Instruction. 

Sec.  11.  No  sectarian  instruction  shall  be  allowed  in  any  school  or  in- 
stitution supported  in  whole  or  in  part  by  the  public  funds  set  apart  for 
educational  purposes,  nor  shall  the  state  accept  any  grant,  conveya,nce, 
or  bequest  of  money,  lands,  or  other  property,  to  be  used  for  sectarian 
purposes. 

Reform  School. 

Sec.  12.  The  legislature  may  provide  by  law  for  the  establishment  of  a 
school  or  schools  for  the  safe  keeping,  education,  employment,  and  re- 
formation of  all  children  under  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  who,  for  want 
of  proper  parental  care  or  other  cause,  are  growing  up  in  mendicancy  or 
crime. 

ARTICLE  IX.  i 

Revenue  and  Finance. 

Section  1.  The  legislature  shall  provide  such  revenue  as  may  be  need- 
ful by  levying  a  tax  by  valuation,  so  that  every  person  and  corporation 
shall  pay  a  tax  in  proportion  to  the  value  of  his,  her,  or  its  property  and 
franchises,  the  value  to  be  ascertained  in  such  manner  as  the  legislature 
shall  direct,  and  it  shall  have  power  to  tax  peddlers,  auctioneers,  brokers, 
hawkers,  commission  merchants,  showmen,  jugglers,  innkeepers,  liquor 
dealers,  toll  bridges,  ferries,  insurance,  telegraph,  and  express  interests 
or  business,  venders  of  patents,  in  such  manner  as  it  shall  direct  by  gen- 
eral law,  uniform  as  to  the  class  upon  which  it  operates.  State  v.  Lan- 
caster county,  4  Neb.,  537. 

Property  Exempt  from  Taxation. 

Sec.  2.  The  property  of  the  state,  counties,  and  municipal  corporations 
both  real  and  personal,  shall  be  exempt  from  taxation,  and  such  other 
•property  as  may  be  used  exclusively  for  agricultural  and  horticultural  so- 
cieties, for  school,  religious,  cemetery,  and  charitable  purposes,  may  be 
exempted  from  taxation,  but  such  exemptions  shall  b6  only  by  general 
law.  In  the  assessment  of  real  estate  encumbered  by  public  easement> 
any  depreciation  occasioned  by  such  easement  may  be  deducted  in  the 
valuation  of  such  property.  The  legislature  may  provide  that  the  in- 
.creased  value  of  lands,  by  reason  of  live  fences,  fruit  and  forest  trees 
grown  and  cultivated  thereon,  shall  not  be  taken  into  account  in  the  as- 
sessment thereof. 

Tlie  Rigrlit  of  Redemption. 

Sec.  3.  The  right  of  redemption  from  all  sales  of  real  estate,  for  the 
non-payment  of  taxes  of  special  assessment  of  any  character  what- 
ever, shall  exist  in  favor  of  owners  and  persons  interested  in  such  real 
estate  for  a  period  of  not  less  than  two  years  from  such  sales  thereof; 
Provided,  That  occupants  shall  in  all  cases  be  served  with  personal  notice 
before  the  time  of  redemption  expires. 

Tlie  L.eg:islature  Sliall  Have  No  Power  to  Release,  etc. 

Sec.  4.  The  legislature  shall  have  no  power  to  release  or  discharge  any 
county,  city,  township,  town,  or  district,  whatever,  or  the  inhabitants 
^thereof,  or  any  corporation,  or  the  property  therein,  from  their  or  its  pro- 
portionate share  of  taxes  to  be  levied  for  state  purposes,  or  due  any  muni- 
cipal corporation,  nor  shall  commutation  for  such  taxes  be  authorized 
.in  any  form  whatever. 


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liitnit  of  Taxation. 

i  Sec.  5.  County  authorities  shall  never  assess  taxes,  the  aggregate  of 
which  shall  exceed  one  and  one-half  dollar  per  one  hundred  dollars  valu- 
ation, except  for  the  payment  of  indebtedness  existing  at  the  adoption  of 
this  constitution,  unless  authorized  by  a  vote  of  the  people  of  the  county. 

Special  Assessiaents  and  Taxation. 
!  Sec.  6.  The  legislature  may  vest  the  corporate  authorities  of  cities, 
towns,  and  villages  with  power  to  make  local  improvements  by  special 
assessments,  or  by  special  taxation  of  property  benefitted.  For  all  other 
corporate  purposes,  all  municipal  corporations  may  be  vested  with  au- 
thority to  assess  and  collect  taxes,  but  such  taxes  shall  be  uniform  in  re- 
spect to  persons  and  property  within  the  jurisdiction  of  the  body  imposing 
the  same. 

Private  Property  Not  Triable  for  Corporate  Debts. 

Sec.  7.  Private  property  shall  not  be  liable  to  be  taken  or  sold  for  the 
payment  of  the  corporate  debts  of  municipal  corporations.  The  legisla- 
ture shall  not  Impose  taxes  upon  municipal  corporations,  or  the  inhabi- 
tants or  property  thereof,  for  corporate  purposes. 

Funding  of  Outstanding:  Warrants. 

Sec.  8.  The  legislature  at  its  first  session  shall  provide  a  law  for  the 
funding  of  all  outstanding  warrants  and  other  indebtedness  of  the  state, 
at  a  rate  of  interest  not  exceeding  eight  per  cent  per  annum.  The  state  v. 
McBride,  6  Neb.,  506. 

Claims  Upon  the  Treasury. 
,  Sec.  9.  The  legislature  shall  provide  by  law  that  all  claims  upon  the 
treasury  shall  be  examined  and  adjusted  by  the  auditor  and  approved  by 
the  secretary  of  state  before  any  warrant  for  the  amount  allowed  shall  be 
drawn ;  Provided,  That  a  party  aggrieved  by  the  decision  of  the  auditor 
and  secretary  of  state  may  appeal  to  the  district  court. 

ARTICLE  X. 
Counties. 

Section  1.  No  new  county  shall  be  formed  or  established  by  the  legis- 
lature which  will  reduce  the  county  or  counties,  or  either  of  them,  to  & 
less  area  than  four  hundred  square  miles,  nor  shall  any  county  be  formed 
of  a  less  area. 

Sec.  2.  No  county  shall  be  divided  or  have  any  part  stricken  therefrom 
without  first  submitting  the  question  to  a  vote  of  the  people  of  the  county, 
nor  unless  a  majority  of  all  the  legal  voters  of  the  county  voting  on  the 
question  shall  vote  for  the  same. 

Sec.  3.  There  shall  be  no  territory  stricken  from  any  organized  county 
unless  a  majority  of  the  voters  living  in  such  territory  shall  petition  for 
such  division,  and  no  territory  shall  be  added  to  any  organized  county 
without  the  consent  of  the  majority  of  the  voters  of  the  county  to  which 
it  is  proposed  to  be  added;  but  the  portion  so  stricken  oti"  and  added  to 
another  county,  or  formed  in  whole  or  in  part  into  a  new  county,  shall  be 
holden  for  and  obliged  to  pay  its  proportion  to  the  indebtedness  of  the 
counties  from  which  it  has  been  taken. 

.    Sec.  4.    The  legislature  shall  provide  by  law  for  the  election  of  such 
county  and  township  officers  as  may  be  necessary. 
Township  Organization. 

Sec.  5.  The  legislature  shall  provide  by  general  law  for  township  or- 
ganization, under  which  any  county  may  organize  whenever  a  majority 


CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  STATE  OF  KEBBASKA. 


of  the  legal  voters  of  such  county,  voting  at  any  general  election,  shall  so 
determine ;  and  in  any  county  that  shall  have  adopted  a  township  organ- 
ization, the  question  of  continuing  the  same  may  be  submitted  to  a  vote 
of  the  electors  of  such  county  at  a  general  election  in  the  manner  that 
shall  be  provided  by  law.    State  v.  Lancaster  County,  6  Neb.,  474. 

ARTICLE  XI. 

CORPORATIONS. 

Railroad  Corporations. 

Section.  1.  Every  railroad  corporation  organized  or  doing  business  in  this 
state,  under  the  laws  or  authority  thereof,  or  of  any  other  state,  or  of  the 
United  States,  shall  have  and  maintain  a  public  office  or  place  in  this 
state  for  the  transaction  of  its  business,  where  transfers  of  stock  shall  be 
made,  and  in  which  shall  be  kept,  for  public  inspection,  books  in  which 
shall  be  recorded  the  amount  of  capital  stock  subscribed,  and  by  whom, 
the  names  of  the  owners  of  its  stock,  and  the  amounts  owned  by  them  re- 
spectively, the  amount  of  stock  paid  in  and  by  whom,  the  transfers  of  said 
stock,  the  amount  of  its  assets  and  liabilities,  and  the  names  and  places 
of  residence  of  its  officers.  The  directors  of  every  railroad  corporation,  or 
other  parties  having  control  of  its  road,  shall  annually  make  a  report  un- 
der oath  to  the  auditor  of  public  accounts,  or  some  officer  to  be  designated 
by  law,  of  the  amount  received  from  passengers  and  freight,  and  such 
other  matters  relating  to  railroads  as  may  be  prescribed  by  law.  And  the 
legislature  shall  pass  laws  enforcing  by  suitable  penalties  the  provisions 
of  this  section. 

Sec.  2.  The  rolling  stock  and  all  other  movable  property  belonging  to 
any  railroad  company  or  corporation  in  this  state  shall  be  liable  to  ex- 
ecution and  sale  in  the  same  manner  as  the  personal  property  of  individ- 
uals, and  the  legislature  shall  pass  no  law  exempting  any  such  property 
from  execution  and  sale. 

Sec.  3.  No  railroad  corporation  or  telegraph  company  shall  consoli- 
date its  stock,  property,  franchises  or  earnings,  in  whole  or  in  part,  with 
any  other  railroad  corporation  or  telegraph  company  owning  a  parallel  or 
competing  line;  and  in  no  case  shall  any  consolidation  take  place  except 
upon  public  notice  of  at  least  sixty  days  to  all  stockholders  in  such  man- 
ner as  may  be  provided  by  law. 

Declared  Public  Highways. 

Sec.  4.  Railways  heretofore  constructed,  or  that  may  hereafter  be  con- 
structed, in  this  state,  are  hereby  declared  public  highways,  and  shall  be 
free  to  all  persons  for  the  transportation  of  their  persons  and  property 
thereon,  under  such  regulations  as  may  be  prescribed  by  law.  And  the 
legislature  may  from  time  to  time  pass  laws  establishing  reasonable  max- 
imum rates  of  charges  for  the^^transportation  of  passengers  and  freight  on 
the  different  railroads  in  this  state.  The  liability  of  railroad  corporations 
as  common  carriers  shall  never  be  limited. 

Of  Issuing:  Stoclts  or  Bonds. 

Sec.  5.  No  railroad  corporation  shall  issue  any  stock  or  bonds  except 
for  money,  labor,  or  property  actually  received  and  applied  to  the  pur- 
poses for  which  such  corporation  was  created,  and  all  stock,  dividends 
and  other  fictitious  increase  of  the  capital  stock  or  indebtedness  of  any 
such  corporation  shall  be  void.  The  capital  stock  of  railroad  corporations 
shall  not  be  increased  for  any  purpose,  except  after  piiblic  notice  for  sixty 
days  in  such  manner  as  may  be  provided  by  law. 


CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  STATE  OF  NEBRASKA.  iT 

Eminent  Domain. 

Sec.  6.  The  exercise  of  the  power  and  the  right  of  eminent  domain  shall 
never  be  so  construed  or  abridged  as  to  prevent  the  taking,  by  the  legisla- 
ture, of  the  property  and  franchises  of  incorporated  companies  already 
organized  or  hereafter  to  be  organized,  and  subjecting  them  to  the  public 
necessity,  the  same  as  of  individuals. 

Iiegislature  to   Correct  Abuses  and  Extortion. 

Sec.  7.  The  legislature  shall  pass  laws  to  correct  abuses  and  prevent  un- 
just discrimination  and  extortion  in  all  charges  of  express,  telegraph,  and 
railroad  companies  in  this  state,  and  enforce  such  laws  by  adequate  penal- 
ties to  the  extent,  if  necessary  for  that  purpose,  of  forfeiture  of  their  prop- 
erty and  franchises. 

Wlien  not  Entitled  to  tlie  Riglit  of  Eminent  Domain. 

Sec.  8.  No  railroad  corporation  organized  under  the  laws  of  any  other 
state,  or  of  the  United  States,  and  doin^  business  in  this  state,  shall  be  en- 
titled to  exercise  the  right  of  eminent  domain,  or  have  power  to  acquire 
the  right  of  way  or  real  estate  for  depot  or  other  uses,  until  it  shall  have 
become  a  body  corporate  pursuant  to  and  in  accordance  with  the  laws  of 
this  state. 

MUNICIPAL  CORPORATIONS. 

Section.  1.  No  city,  county,  town,  precinct,  municipality,  or  other  sub- 
division of  the  state,  shall  ever  become  a  subscriber  to  the  capital  stock 
or  owner  of  such  stock,  or  any  portion  or  interest  therein,  of  any  railroad 
or  private  corporation  or  association. 

miscelaneous  corporations. 

Section  1.  No  corporation  shall  be  created  by  special  law,  nor  its  charter 
extended,  changed,  or  amended,  except  those  for  charitable,  educational, 
penal,  or  reformatory  purposes,  which  are  to  be  and  remain  under  the 
patronage  and  control  of  the  state,  but  the  legislature  shall  provide  by 
general  laws  for  the  organization  of  all  corporations  hereafter  to  be 
created.  All  general  laws  passed  pursuant  to  this  section  may  be  altered 
from  time  to  time  or  repealed. 

Sec.  2.  No  such  general  law  shall  be  passed  by  the  legislature  granting 
the  right  to  construct  and  operate  a  street  railroad  within  any  city,  town, 
or  incorporated  village,  without  first  requiring  the  consent  of  a  majority 
of  the  electors  thereof. 

Sec.  3.  All  corporations  may  sue  and  be  sued  in  like  cases  as  natural 
persons. 

Sec.  4.  In  all  cases  of  claims  against  corporations  and  joint  stock  asso- 
ciations the  exact  amount  justly  due  shall  be  first  ascertained,  and  after 
the  corporate  property  shall  have  been  exhausted,  the  original  subscrib- 
ers thereof  shall  be  individually  liable  to  the  extent  of  their  unpaid  sub- 
scription, and  the  liability  for  the  unpaid  subscription  shall  follow  the 
Btock. 

Sec.  5.  The  legislature  shall  provide  by  law  that  in  all  elections  for  di- 
rectors or  managers  of  incorporated  companies,  every  stockholder  shall 
have  the  right  to  vote  in  person  or  by  proxy  for  the  number  of  shares  of 
stock  owned  by  him,  for  as  many  persons  as  there  are  directors  or  mana- 
gers to  be  elected,  or  to  cumulate  said  shares  and  give  one  candidate  as 
many  votes  as  the  number  of  directors  multiplied  by  the  number  of  his 
shares  of  stock  shall  equal,  or  to  distribute  them  upon  the  same  principle 


48  CONSTITUTION  OF  THE   STATE  OF  NEBRASKA. 

J ^ 

among  as  many  candidates  as  he  shall  think  fit;  and  such  directors  or 
managers  shall  not  be  elected  in  any  other  manner. 

Sec.  6.  All  existing  charters  or  grants  of  special  or  exclusive  privil- 
eges under  which  organization  shall  not  have  taken  place,  or  which  shall 
not  be  in  operation  within  sixty  days  from  the  time  this  constitution 
takes  effect,  shall  thereafter  have  no  validity  or  effect  whatever. 

Sec.  7.  Every  stockholder  in  a  banking  corporation  or  institution  shall 
be  individually  responsible  and  liable  to  its  creditors,  over  and  above  the 
amount  of  stock  by  him  held,  for  all  its  liabilities  accruing  while  he  re- 
mains such  stockholder;  and  all  banking  corporations  shall  publish 
quarterly  statements,  under  oath,  of  their  assets  and  liabilities. 
ARTICLE  XII. 
State,  County  and  Municipal  Indebtedness. 

Section  1.  The  state  may,  to  meet  casual  deficits  or  failures  in  the 
revenues,  contract  debts  never  to  exceed  in  the  aggregate  one  hundred 
thousand  dollars:  and  no  greater  indebtedness  shall  be  incurred  except 
for  the  purpose  of  repelling  invasion,  suppressing  insurrection,  or  de- 
fending the  state  in  war;  and  provision  shall  be  made  for  the  payment  of 
the  interest  annually,  as  it  shall  accrue,  by  a  tax  levied  for  the  purpose,  or 
from  other  sources  of  revenue,  which  law,  providing  for  the  payment  of 
such  interest  by  such  tax,  shall  be  irrepealable  until  such  debt  be  paid. 

Sec.  2.  No  city,  county,  town,  precinct,  municipality,  or  other  subdi- 
vision of  the  state,  shall  ever  make  donations  to  any  railroad  or  other 
work  of  internal  improvement,  unless  a  proposition  so  to  do  shall  have 
been  first  submitted  to  the  qualified  electors  thereof  at  an  election  by  au- 
thority of  law;  Provided,  That  such  donations  of  a  county,  with  the  do- 
nations of.  such  subdivisions,  in  the  aggregate  shall  not  exceed  ten  per 
cent  of  the  assessed  valuation  of  such  county;  Provided  further.  That  any 
city  or  county  may,  by  a  two-thirds  vote,  increase  such  indebtedness  five 
per  cent,  in  addition  to  such  ten  per  cent,  and  no  bonds  or  evidences  of 
indebtedness  so  issued  shall  be  valid  unless  the  same  shall  have  endorsed 
thereon  a  certificate  signed  by  the  secretary  and  auditor  of  state,  showing 
that  the  same  is  issued  pursuant  to  law.  Reineman  v.  C.  C.  B,  H.  E.  R.  Co., 
7  Neb.,  310. 

Sec.  3.    The  credit  of  the  state  shall  never  be  given  or  loaned  in  aid  of 
any  individual,  association,  or  corporation. 
ARTICLE  Xin. 
Militia. 

Section  1.  The  legislature  shall  determine  what  persons  shall  consti- 
tute the  militia  of  the  state,  and  may  provide  for  organizing  and  disci- 
plining the  same. 

ARTICLE  XIV. 

Miscellaneous  Provisions. 

Section  1.  Executive  and  judicial  officers  and  members  of  the  legisla- 
ture, before  they  enter  upon  their  official  duties,  shall  take  and  subscribe 
the  following  oath  or  affirmation:  "I  do  solemnly  swear  (or  aftrm)  that 
I  will  support  the  constitution  of  the  United  States,  and  the  constitution 

of  the  state  of  Nebraska,  and  will  faithfully  discharge  the  duties  of 

according  to  the  best  of  my  ability,  and  that  at  the  election  at  which  I 
was  chosen  to  fill  said  office  I  have  not  improperly  influenced  in  any  way 
the  vote  of  any  elector,  and  have  not  accepted,  nor  will  I  accept  or  re- 
ceive, directly  or  indirectly,  any  money  or  other  valuable  thing  from  any 


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corporation,  company,  or  person,  or  any  promise  of  office  for  any  official 
act  or  influence  (for  any  vote  I  may  give  or  withhold  on  any  bill,  resolu- 
tion, or  appropriation)."  Any  such  officer  or  member  of  the  legislature 
who  shall  refuse  to  take  the  oath  herein  prescribed,  shall  forfeit  his  of- 
fice, and  any  person  who  shall  be  convicted  of  having  sworn  falsely  fO, 
or  of  violating  his  oath,  shall  forfeit  his  office,  and  thereafter  be  disquali- 
fied from  holding  any  office  of  trust  or  profit  in  this  state,  unless  he  shall 
have  been  restored  to  civil  rights. 

Sec.  2.  Any  person  who  is  in  default  as  collector  and  custodian  of  pub- 
lic money  or  property,  shall  not  be  eligible  to  any  office  of  trust  or  profit 
under  the  constitution  or  laws  of  this  state;  nor  shall  any  person  convic- 
ted of  felony  be  eligible  to  office  unless  he  shall  have  been  restored  to 
civil  rights. 

Sec.  3.  Drunkenness  shall  be  cause  of  impeachment  and  removal  from 
office. 

ARTICLE  XV. 

Amedments. 

Section  1.  Either  branch  of  the  legislature  may  propose  amendments 
to  this  constitution,  and  if  the  same  be  agreed  to  by  three-fifths  of  the 
members  elected  to  each  house,  such  proposed  amendments  shall  be  en- 
tered on  the  journals,  with  the  yeas  and  nays,  and-  published  at  least 
once  each  week  in  at  least  one  newspaper  in  each  county  where  a  newspaper 
is  published,  for  three  months  immediately  preceding  the  next  election 
of  senators  and  representatives,  at  which  election  the  same  shall  be  sub- 
mitted to  the  electors  for  approval  or  rejection,  and  if  a  majority  of  the 
electors  voting  at  such  election  adopt  such  amendments,  the  same  shall 
become  apart  of  this  constitution.  When  more  than  one  amendment  is 
submitted  at  the  same  election,  they  shall  be  so  submitted  as  to  enable  the 
electors  to  vote  on  each  amendment  separately. 

Sec.  2.  When  three-fifths  of  the  members  elected  to  each  branch  of  the 
legislature  deem  it  necessary  to  call  a  convention  to  revise,  amend,  or 
change  this  constitution,  they  shall  recommend  to  the  electors  to  vote  at 
the  next  election  of  members  of  the  legislature  for  or  against  a  convention, 
and  if  a  majority  voting  at  said  election  vote  for  a  convention,  the  legisla- 
ture shall,  at  its  next  session,  provide  by  law  for  calling  the  same.  The  con- 
vention shall  consist  of  as  many  members  as  the  house  of  representatives, 
who  shall  be  chosen  in  the  same  manner,  and  shall  meet  within  three 
months  after  their  election,  for  the  purpose  aforesaid.  No  amendment 
or  change  of  this  constitution,  agreed  upon  by  such  convention,  shall 
take  effect  until  the  same  shall  be  submitted  to  the  electors  of  the  state, 
and  adopted  by  a  majority  of  those  voting  for  and  against  the  s^jne. 
ARTICLE  XVI. 
Schedule. 
Section  1.  That  no  inconvenience  may  arise  from  the  revision  and  chang- 
es made  in  the  constitution  of  this  state,  and  to  carry  the  same  into  effect, 
it  is  hereby  ordained  and  declared  that  all  laws  in  force  at  the  time  of 
the  adoption  of  this  constitution,  not  inconsistent  therewith,  and  all 
rights,  actions,  prosecutions,  claims,  and  contracts  of  this  state,  individ- 
uals, or  bodies  corporate,  shall  continue  to  be  as  valid  as  if  this  constitu- 
tion had  not  been  adopted. 

Sec.  2.    All  fines,  taxes,  penalties,  and  forfeitures  owing  to  the  state  of 
Nebraska,  or  to  the  people  thereof,  under  the  present  constitution  and 


50  CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  STATE  OF  NEBRASKA. 

laws,  shall  inure  to  the  use  of  the  state  of  Nebraska  under  this  constitu- 
tion. 

Sec.  3.  Recognizances,  bonds,  obligations,  and  all  other  instruments 
entered  into  or  executed  upon  the  adoption  of  this  constitution,  to  the 
people  of  the  state  of  Nebraska,  to  the  state  of  Nebraska,  to  any  state  or 
county  officer,  or  public  body,  shall  remain  binding  and  valid,  and  rights 
and  liabilities  upon  the  same  shall  continue;  and  all  crimes  and  misde- 
meanors shall  be  tried  and  punished  as  though  no  change  had  been 
made  in  the  constitution  of  this  state. 

Sec.  4.  All  existing  courts  which  are  not  in  this  constitution  specifi- 
cally enumerated,  and  concerning  which  no  other  provision  is  herein 
made,  shall  continue  in  existence,  and  exercise  their  present  jurisdiction 
until  otherwise  provided  by  law. 

Sec.  5.  All  persons  now  filling  any  office  or  appointment  shall  continue 
in  the  exercise  of  the  duties  thereof  according  to  their  respective  commis- 
sions, elections,  or  appointments,  unless  by  this  constitution  it  is  other- 
wise directed. 

Sec.  6.  The  district  attorneys  now  in  office  shall  continue  during  their 
unexpired  terms  to  hold  and  exercise  the  duties  of  their  respective  offices 
in  the  judicial  districts  herein  created,  in  which  they  severally  reside.  In 
each  of  the  remaining  districts  one  such  officer  shall  be  elected  at  tha 
first  general  election,  and  hold  his  office  until  the  expiration  of  the  terms 
of  those  now  in  office. 

Sec  7.  This  constitution  shall  be  submitted  to  the  people  of  the  state 
of  Nebraska,  for  adoption  or  rejection,  at  an  election  to  be  held  on  the 
second  Tuesday  of  October,  a.  d.  1875,  and  there  shall  be  separately  sub- 
mitted at  the  same  time  for  adoption  or  rejection  the  independent  arti- 
cle relating  to  "Seat  of  Government,"  and  the  independent  article  "Al- 
lowing electors  to  express  a  preference  for  United  States  senator." 

Sec  8.  At  said  election  the  qualified  electors  shall  vote  at  the  usual 
placesof  voting,  and  the  said  election  shall  be  conducted  and  the  returns 
thereof  made  according  to  the  laws  now  in  force  regulating  general  elec- 
tions, except  as  herein  otherwise  provided. 

Sec  9.  The  secretary  of  state  shall,  at  least  twenty  days  before  said 
election,  cause  to  be  delivered  to  the  county  clerk  of  each  county  blank 
poll-books,  tally  lists,  and  forms  of  return,  and  twice  as  many  of  properly 
prepared  printed  ballots  for  the  said  election  as  there  are  voters  in  such 
county,  the  expense  whereof  shall  be  audited  and  paid  as  other  public 
printing  ordered  by  the  secretary  is  by  law  required  to  be  audited  and 
paid;  and  the  several  county  clerks  shall,  at  least  five  days  before  said 
election,  cause  to  be  distributed  to  the  judges  of  election  in  each  election 
precinct  in  their  respective  counties  said  blank  poll-books,  tally  lists, 
forms  of  return,  and  tickets. 

Sec  10.    At  the  said  election  the  ballots  shall  be  of  the  following  form: 

For  the  new  constitution. 

Against  *he  new  constitution. 

For  the  a.  licle  relating  to  "Seat  of  Government." 

Against  the  article  relating  to  "Seat  of  Government." 

For  the  article  "Allowing  electors  to  express  their  preference  for  United 
States  senators." 

Against  the  article  "Allowing  electors  to  express  their  preference  for 
United  States  senators." 

Skc.  11.    The  returns  of  the  who'e  vote  cast,  and  the  votes  for  the  adop- 


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tlon  or  rejection  of  this  constitution,  and  for  or  against  the  articles  re- 
spectively submitted,  shall  be  made  by  the  several  county  clerks  to  the 
secretary  of  state,  within  fourteen  days  after  the  election,  and  the  returns 
of  said  vote  shall,  within  three  days  thereafter,  be  examined  and  can- 
vassed by  the  president  of  this  convention,  and  the  secretary  of  state  and 
the  governor,  or  any  two  of  them,  and  proclamation  shall  be  made  forth- 
with by  the  governor,  or  the  president  of  this  convention,  of  the  result  of 
the  canvass. 

Sec.  12.  If  it  shall  appear  that  a  majority  of  the  votes  polled  are  "for 
the  new  constitution,"  then  so  much  of  this  new  constitution  as  was  not 
separately  submitted  to  be  voted  on  by  article  shall  be  the  supreme  law 
of  the  state  of  Nebraska,  on  and  after  the  first  day  of  November,  a.  d.  1875. 
Butif  it  shall  appear  that  a  majority  of  the  votes  polled  were  "against 
the  new  constitution,"  the  whole  thereof,  including  the  articles  separate- 
ly submitted,  shall  be  null  and  void.  If  the  votes  "for  the  new  constitu- 
tion" shall  adopt  the  same,  and  it  shall  appear  that  a  majority  of  the 
votes  polled  are  for  the  article  relating  to  "the  seat  of  government,"  said 
article  shall  be  a  part  of  the  constitution  of  this  state.  If  the  votes  "for 
the  new  constitution"  shall  adopt  the  same,  and  it  shall  appear  that  the 
majority  of  the  votes  polled  are  for  the  article  "allowing  electors  to  ex- 
press their  preference  for  United  States  senator,"  said  article  shall  be  a 
part  of  the  constitution  of  this  state. 

Sec.  13.  The  general  election  of  this  state  shall  be  held  on  Tuesday  suc- 
ceeding the  first  Monday  of  November  of  each  year,  except  the  first  gen- 
eral election,  which  shall  be  on  the  second  Tuesday  in  October,  1875.  All 
state,  district,  county,  precinct,  and  township  officers,  by  the  constitution 
or  laws  made  elective  by  the  people,  except  school  district  officers,  and 
municipal  officers  in  cities,  villages,  and  towns,  shall  be  elected  at  a  gen- 
eral election  to  be  held  as  aforesaid.  Judges  of  the  supreme,  district,  and 
county  courts,  all  elective  county  and  precinct  officers,  and  all  other 
elective  officers,  the  time  for  the  election  of  whom  is  not  herein  other- 
wise provided  for,  and  which  are  not  included  in  the  above  exception, 
shall  be  elected  at  the  first  general  election,  and  thereafter  at  the  general 
election  next  preceding  the  time  of  the  termination  of  their  respective 
terms  of  office;  Provided,  That  the  office  of  no  county  commissioner  shall 
be  vacated  hereby. 

Sec.  14.  The  terms  of  office  of  all  state  and  county  officers,  or  judges  of 
the  supreme,  district,  and  county  courts,  and  regents  of  the  university, 
shall  begin  on  the  first  Thursday  after  the  first  Tuesday  in  January  next 
succeeding  their  election.  The  present  state  and  county  officers,  mem- 
bers of  the  legislature,  and  regents  of  the  university,  shall  continue  in 
office  until  their  successors  shall  be  elected  and  qualified. 

Sec.  15.  The  supreme,  district,  and  county  courts  established  by  this 
constitution  shall  be  the  successors  respectively  of  the  supreme  court, 
the  district,  and  the  probate  courts,  having  jurisdiction  under  the  exist- 
ing constitution. 

Sec.  16.  The  supreme,  district,  and  probate  courts  now  in  existence 
shall  continue,  and  the  judges  thereof  shall  exercise  the  power  and  re- 
tain their  present  jurisdiction  until  the  courts  provided  for  by  this  con- 
stitution shall  be  organized. 

Sec.  17.  All  cases,  matters,  and  proceedings  pending  and  undeter- 
mined in  the  several  courts,  and  all  records,  judgments,  orders,  and  de- 


52  CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  STATE  OF  NEBRASKA. 

crees  remaining  therein,  are  hereby  transferred  to  and  shall  be  proceeded 
and  enforced  in  and  by  the  successors  thereof  respectively. 

Sec.  18.  If  this  constitution  be  adopted,  the  existing  constitution  shall 
cease  in  all  its  provisions  on  the  first  day  of  November,  a.  d.  1875. 

Sec.  19.  The  provisions  of  this  constitution  required  to  be  executed 
prior  to  the  adoption  or  rejection  thereof,  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force 
immediately. 

Sec.  20.  The  legislature  shall  pass  all  laws  necessary  to  carry  into  effect 
the  provisions  of  this  constitution. 

Sec.  21.  On  the  taking  effect  of  this  constitution,  all  state  officers 
hereby  continued  in  office  shall,  before  proceeding  in  the  further  dis- 
charge (rf  their  duties,  take  an  oath  or  affirmation  to  support  this  consti- 
tution. 

Sec.  22.  The  regents  of  the  university  shall  be  elected  at  the  first  gen- 
eral election  under  this  constitution,  and  be  classified  by  lot  so  that  two 
shall  hold  their  office  for  the  term  of  two  years,  two  for  the  term  of  four 
years,  and  two  for  the  term  of  six  years. 

Sec.  23.  The  present  executive  state  officers  shall  continue  in  office 
until  the  executive  state  officers  provide  for  in  this  constitution  shall  be 
elected  and  qualified. 

Sec.  24.  The  returns  of  the  whole  vote  cast  for  the  judges  of  the  supreme 
and  district  courts,  district  attorneys,  and  regents  of  the  university,  under 
the  first  general  election,  shall  be  made  by  the  several  clerks  to  the  secre- 
tary of  state  within  fourteen  days  after  the  election;  and  the  returns  of 
the  said  votes  shall,  within  three  days  thereafter,  be  examined  and  can- 
vassed by  the  governor,  secretary  of  state,  and  the  president  of  this  con- 
vention, or  any  two  of  them,  and  certificates  of  election  shall  forthwith 
be  issued  by  the  secretary  of  state  to  the  persons  found  to  be  elected. 

Sec.  25.  The  auditor  shall  draw  the  warrant  of  the  state  quartly  for 
the  payment  of  the  salaries  of  all  officers  under  this  constitution 
whose  compensation  is  not  otherwise  provided  for,  which  shall  be  paid 
out  of  any  funds  not  otherwise  appropriated.  State  v.  Weston,  4  Neb.,  216. 
State  V.  Weston,  6  Neb.,  16. 

Sec.  26.  Until  otherwise  provided  by  law,  the  judges  of  the  district 
courts  shall  fix  the  time  of  holding  courts  in  their  respective  districts. 

Sec.  27.  The  members  of  the  first  legislature  under  this  constitution 
shall  be  elected  in  the  year  1876. 

Sec.  28.  This  constitution  shall  be  enrolled  and  deposited  in  the  office 
of  the  secretary  of  state,  and  printed  copies  thereof  shall  be  prefixed 
to  the  books  containing  the  laws  of  the  state,  and  all  future  editions 
thereof. 

PROPOSITIONS  SEPARATELY  SUBMITTED. 

ALLOWING    ELECTORS  TO  EXPRESS    THEIR  PREFERENCE   FOR  UNITED    STATES 
SENATOR. 

The  legislature  may  provide  that  at  the  general  election  immediately 
preceding  the  expiration  of  the  term  of  a  United  States  senator  from  this 
Rtate,  the  electors  may  by  ballot  expree.ss  their  preference  for  some  person 
for  the  office  of  United  States  senator.  The  votes  cast  for  such  candi- 
dates shall  be  canvassed  and  returned  in  the  same  manner  as  for  state 
officers, 

SEAT  OF  GOVERNMENT. 

The  seat  of  government  of  the  state  shall  not  be  removed  or  re-located 
without  the  assent  of  a  majority  of  the  electors  of  the  state  voting  there- 


CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  STATE  OP  NEBRASKA. 


upon  at  a  general  election  or  elections,  under  such  rules  and  regulations 
as  to  the  number  of  elections  and  manner  of  voting  and  places  to  be  voted 
for  as  may  be  prescribed  by  law:  Provided,  The  question  of  removal  may 
be  submitted  at  such  other  general  elections  as  may  be  provided  by  law. 
Done  in  convention  at  the  capitol  in  the  city  of  Lincoln,  on  the 
twelfth  day  of  June,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred 
and  seventy-five,  and  of  the  independence  of  the  United  States  ot  America 
the  ninety-ninth. 

JOHN  LEE  WEBSTER,  President. 

H.  H.  SHEDD, 

S.  M.  KIRK  PATRICK,  .     • 

A   H.  CONNER, 

GEORGE  S.  SMITH, 

JOHN  J.  THOMPSON, 

W.  B.  CUMMINS, 

W.  H.  STERNS, 

L.  B.  THORNE. 

JAMES  W.  DAWES, 

R.  F.  STEVENSON, 

JACOB  VALLERY,  Sr., 

J.  E.  DOOM, 

S.  R.  FOSS, 

C.  H.  VAN  WICK,, 

W    L.  DUNLAP, 


O.  A.  ABBOTT, 

SAMUEL  MAXWELL, 

ANDREW  HALLNER, 

LUKE  AGUR, 

JOHN  McPHERSON, 

J.  D.  HAMILTON, 

J.  P.  BECKER, 

W.  H.  MUNGER, 

JAMES  HARPER, 

J.  E.  BOYD, 

J.  H.  PERRY, 

ROBT.  B.  HARRINGTON, 

CLINTON    BRIGGS, 

C.  W.  PIERCE, 

J.  B.  HAWLEY, 

JEFFERSON  H.  BROADY,  C.  H.  FRADY 


S.B.  POUND, 
M.  L.  HAYWARD, 
CHARLES  H.  BROWN. 
ISAAC  POWERS,  Jr., 

D.  P.  HENRY, 
S.  F.  BURCH, 
M.  B.  REES, 

B.  I.  HINMAN, 
S.  H  CALHOUN, 

W.  M.  ROBERTSON, 
M.  R.  HOPEWELL, 

E.  C.  CARNS, 
JOSIAH  ROGERS, 

C.  E.  HUNTER, 
T.  S.  CLARK, 
J.  H.  SAULS, 

A.  G.  KENDALL, 
S.  H.  COATS, 


CHARLES  F.  WALTHERS, 

R.  C.  ELDRIDGE, 

JOSEPH  GA.RBER, 

A.M.  WALLING, 

J.  G.  EWAN, 

C.  H.  GERE, 

T.  L.  WARRINGTON, 

JAMES  LAIRD, 

HENEY  GREBE, 

A.  J.  WEAVER, 

CHAS.  F.  MANDERSON, 

EDWIN  N.  GRENELL, 

M.  W.  WILCOX, 

FRANK  MARTIN, 

GEORGE  L.  GRIFFING, 

J.  F.  ZEDIKER, 

A.  W.  M  ^TTHEWS, 

WILLIAM  A.  GWYER. 


AT. est: 


Guy  a.  3R0WN,  Secretary, 

C.  L.  Mather,  Assistant  Secretary. 


54  STATUTORY  PROVISIONS. 


STATUTORY  PROVISIONS. 


CHAPTER  XXVII. 
T^EGISLATURE. 

Clerks  to  File  Certificates  and  Make  Roll  of  Menabers. 

2107.  The  clerks  of  each  house  shall  file  the  certificates  presented  by 
members,  each  for  his  own  house,  and  make  a  roll  of  the  members  who 
thus  appear  to  be  elected,  and  the  persons  thus  appearing  to  be  elected 
members  shall  proceed  to  elect  such  other  orticers  as  may  be  required  for 
the  time  being. 

Committee  on  Credentials. 

2108.  When  the  houses  are  temporarily  organized  they  shall  elect  a 
committee  of  five  on  the  part  of  the  house  and  three  on  the  part  of  the 
senate,  by  ballot,  which  committee  shall  examine  and  report  upon  cre- 
dentials of  those  claiming  to  be  elected  members  of  their  respective 
houses,  and  when  such  report  is  made,  thosa  reported  as  elected  shall 
proceed  to  the  permanent  organization  of  their  respective  houses,  and 
each  house  shall  be  the  sole  judge  of  the  election  returns  and  qualifica- 
tions of  its  own  members. 

Any  Member  May  Administer  Oath. 

2109.  Any  member  may  administer  oath  in  the  house  of  which  he  is  a 
member  and  which  acting  on  a  committee  may  administer  oaths  on  the 
business  of  such  committee. 

Freedom  of  Debate  Guarranteed. 

2110.  No  member  of  the  legislative  assembly,  shall  be  questioned  in  any 
other  place  for  any  speech  or  words  spoken  in  debate  in  either  house. 

Power  to  Punish  Contempt,  etc. 

2111.  Each  house  of  the  legislative  assembly,  has  power  and  authority 
to  punish  as  a  contempt  by  fine  and  imprisonment,  or  either  of  them,  the 
offense  of  knowingly  arresting  a  member  in  violation  of  his  privilege;  of 
assaulting  or  threatening  to  do  him  any  harm,  in  person  or  property, 
for  anything  said  or  done  in  either  house,  as  a  member  thereof ;  of  attempt- 
ing, by  menace  or  other  corrupt  means  to  control  or  influence  a  member 
in  giving  his  vote  or  to  prevent  his  giving  it,  of  disorderly  or  contemptu- 
ous conduct  tending  to  disturb  its  proceedings;  of  refusing  to  attend,  or 
to  be  sworn,  or  to  be  examined  as  a  witness  before  either  house  or  a  com- 
mittee, when  duly  summoned ;  of  assaulting  or  preventing  any  other  person 
going  to  either  house,  or  its  committe  by  order  thereof,  knowing  the  same ; 
of  rescuing  or  attempting  to  rescue  any  person  arrested  by  order  of  either 
house  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties  as  such. 

Duration  of  Imprisonment  and  Where. 

2112.  Imprisonment  for  contempt  of  either  house  shall  not  be  for  more 
than  six  hours,  and  shall  be  in  the  jail  of  the  county  in  which  the  legisla- 
tive assembly  may  then  be  sitting,  or  if  there  be  no  jail,  then  in  one  of 
the  nearest  county  jails. 

Fxtent  of  Fine. 

2113.  Should  a  fine  be  enforced  for  any  offense  mentioned  in  section 
seven,  it  shall  not  exceed  fifty  dollars. 

Fines  and  Imprisonment  by  Whom  and  How. 

2114.  Fines  and  imprisonment  shall  be  only  by  virtue  of  an  order  of 


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the  proper  house,  entered  on  its  journals,  stating  the  grounds  tliere  for. 
Imprisonment  shall  be  effected  by  a  warrant,  under  the  hand  of  the  pre- 
siding ofticer,  for  the  time  being,  of  the  house  ordering  it,  countersigned 
by  the  clerk  of  the  house,  running  in  tlie  name  of  the  state  and  directed 
to  the  sheriff  of  the  proper  county;  and  under  such  warrant,  the  officer 
of  the  house,  sheriff,  and  jailer  will  be  authorized  to  arrest  and  detain 
the  person. 

Fines  How  Collected. 

2115.  Fines  shall  be  collected  by  virtue  of  a  similar  warrant,  directed 
to  any  proper  officer  of  the  county  in  which  the  offender  has  property, 
and  executed  in  the  same  manner  as  executions  for  tines  issued  by  courts 
of  justice,  and  the  proceeds  shall  be  paid  into  the  state  treasury. 

Punishment  No  Bar  to  Other  Proceedings. 

2116.  Punishment  for  contempt,  as  in  this  chapter  provided,  is  no  bar 
to  any  other  proceedings,  civil  or  criminal,  for  the  same  offense. 

Officers  and  Employees  of  tl»e  Senate. 

2117.  That  the  officers  and  employees  of  the  senate  shall  consist  of  a 
president,  secretary,  assistant  secretary,  sergeant-at-arms,  door  keeper, 
enrolling  clerk,  engrossing  clerk,  chaplain,  and  such  other  officers  and 
employees,  not  to  exceed  sixty-six  in  number,  as  may  be  deemed  neces- 
sary for  the  proper  transaction  of  business.  Such  other  officers  or  em- 
ployees to  be  elected  by  the  senate. 

Officers  and  Employees  of  the  Honse. 

2118.  The  officers  and  employees  of  the  house  of  representatives  shall 
consist  of  a  speaker,  chief  clerk,  assistant  clerk,  sergeant-at-arms,  door 
keeper,  enrolling  clerk,  engrossing  clerk,  chaplain,  and  such  other  offi- 
cers and  employees,  not  exceeding  seventy-five  in  number,  as  may  be 
deemed  necessary  for  the  transaction  of  business.  Such  other  officers  or 
employees  to  be  elected  by  the  house. 

Pay  of  Officers  and  Employees. 

2119.  There  shall  be  paid  to  each  of  the  several  officers  and  employees 
named  in  this  act,  for  the  Official  services  rendered  by  them  under  the 
provisions  of  this  act,  the  following  sums,  and  no  more:  The  president 
of  the  senate  and  speaker  of  the  house  of  representatives  shall  each  be  en- 
titled to  receive  the  sum  of  three  dollars  per  day;  the  secretary  and  chief 
clerk  the  sum  of  four  dollars  per  day ;  the  assistant  clerks,  the  sum  of  four 
dollars  per  day,  the  sergeant-at-arms,  the  sum  of  three  dollars  per  day: 
the  chaplains,  the  sum  of  three  dollars  per  day;  the  doorkeepers,  the  sum 
of  three  dollars  per  day;  and  the  pages,  the  sum  of  one  dollar  and  fifty 
cents  per  day;  enrolling  and  engrossing  clerks,  three  dollars  per  day. 

Duties. 

2120.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  president  of  the  senate  and  the  speaker  of 
the  house  of  representatives  to  preside  over  their  respective  houses,  to  keep 
and  maintain  order  during  the  session  thereof,  and  to  do  and  perform  the 
duties  devolving  upon  them  by  general  parliamentary  usage,  and  the 
rules  adopted  by  the  two  houses.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  chief  clerk  of 
the  house  of  representatives,  and  the  secretary  of  the  senate,  to  attend 
the  sessions  of  the  respective  houses,  to  call  the  rolls,  read  the  journals, 
bills,  memorials,  resolutions,  petitions,  and  all  other  papers  or  documents 
necessary  to  be  read  in  either  house,  to  keep  a  correct  journal  of  the  pro- 
ceedings in  each  house,  and  to  do  and  perform  such  other  duties  as  may 
be  imposed  upon  them  by  the  two  houses,  or  either  of  them.    The  assistant 


STATUTORY  PROVISIONS. 


clerk  and  assistant  secretary  shall  be  under  the  control  and  direction  of 
the  chief  clerk  and  secretary  respectively,  and  shall  assist  them  in  the 
proper  discharge  of  their  duties  and  shall  do  and  perform  such  other  ser- 
vices as  may  be  directed  by  the  two  houses  or  either  of  them.  It  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  sergeant-at-arms  to  enforce  the  attendance  of  absent  mem- 
bers, when  directed  properly  so  to  do;  to  arrest  all  members,  or  other 
persons,  when  lawfully  authorized  so  to  do;  to  keep  and  preserve  order 
during  the  i-ession  of  each  house;  to  convey  to  the  postoffice  the  mail 
matter  sent  by  the  respective  members,  and  to  deliver  the  same  to  them 
on  each  morning  of  the  session;  to  obey  and  enforce  the  orders  of  the  pre- 
siding officers,  and  to  do  and  perform  such  other  duties  as  may  be  en- 
joined on  them  by  law  and  the  respective  houses.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  door-keeper  to  prepare  and  keep  in  order  the  senate  chamber  and  hall 
of  the  houses,  including  cleaning  and  warming  the  same;  to  attend  to 
and  keep  clo«ed  the  door  and  bar  of  the  respective  houses,  unless  other- 
wise directed  by  the  presiding  officers  therof ;  and  to  perform  such  other 
duties  as  may  be  enjoined  on  them  by  either  house.  It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  engrossing  clerk  to  correctly  engross  such  bills  as  may  be  required 
to  be  engrossed  by  the  committee  on  engrossed  and  enrolled  bills,  and  to 
perform  such  other  duties  as  may  be  required  by  either  house.  It  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  enrolling  clerk  to  correctly  and  neatly  enroll  all  such 
bills  as  may  be  placed  in  his  hands  therefor,  and  to  perform  such  other 
duties  as  may  be  enjoined  on  him  by  either  house.  It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  chaplains  to  open  the  sessions  of  each  house  with  prayer,  and  to 
perform  such  other  duties  as  may  be  imposed  on  them.  And  it  shall  be 
the  duties  of  the  pages  to  act  under  and  as  directed  by  the  presiding 
officers  of  the  respective  houses.  It  shall  also  be  the  duty  of  the  sergeant- 
at-arms  to  procure  a  national  flag,  and  to  place  the  same  on  the  top  of 
the  capitol  building,  there  to  be  kept  during  the  time  each  or  either  of 
the  two  houses  shall  be  in  session,  and  after  the  adjournment  of  the  two 
houses,  the  said  flag  shall  be  taken  down  and  kept  down  until  the  open- 
ing of  the  session  of  one  ol  the  two  houses. 

The  Secretary  of  State  to  Distribute  L,aw8  and  Journals. 

2121.  The  secretary  of  state  is  hereby  authorizad  to  distribute  the  laws 
and  journals  of  the  state,  as  hereinafter  prescribed. 

The  County  Clerks  to  Make   Keqisition  on  Secretary  of    State  for 
L.aw8  and  Journals. 

2122.  The  county  clerk  of  each  organized  county  shall  make  a  requisi- 
tion upon  the  secretary  of  state  for  six  copies  (or  as  many  less  than  that 
amount  as  he  shall  find  necessary  for  the  county)  of  the  laws,  and  four- 
teen copies  of  the  journals  of  each  branch  of  the  legislative  assembly,  for 
the  use  of  the  county  of  which  he  is  clerk;  and  he  shall  name  the  convey- 
ance and  means  of  transportation,  and  shall  also  specify  to  whom  they 
shall  be  directed,  and  to  whose  care,  and  upon  the  receipt  of  such  re- 
quisition the  secretary  shall  at  once  forward  the  required  number  of  laws 
and  journals  as  specified  in  the  requisition  of  such  county  clerk,  and  the 
county  clerk  shall  receipt  for  the  same  to  the  secretary,  which  receipt 
shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of  state. 

Laws  nnd  Journals,  How  Distributed. 

2123.  The  county  clerk  shall  distribute  one  copy  of  the  laws  to  each  of 
the  officers  of  the  county,  as  follows:  The  probate  or  county  judge;  each 
memberof  the  board  of  county  commissioners;   the  sheriff";  the  county 


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treasurer ;  the  county  surveyor ;  the  prosecuting  attorney;  each  notary 
public;  each  justice  of  the  peace;  each  constable;  each  road  supervisor; 
and  each  precinct  assessor  in  said  county.  He  shall  also  reserve  one  for 
himself,  and  give  two  copies  each  of  the  laws  and  journals  to  every  coun- 
cilman and  representative  who  was  a  member  of  the  legislative  assembly 
by  which  the  laws  were  enacted. 

Each  Officer  to  Deliver  up  to  his  Successor. 

2124.  Each  officer  shall  deliver  up  to  his  successor  in  office  all  statutes 
which  shall  have  come  into  his  possession  under  the  provisions  of  this 
chapter,  as  soon  after  his  successor  shall  have  been  qualified  as  such  suc- 
cessor or  the  county  clerk  may  require. 

Surplus  to  be  Sold. 

2X25.  After  the  above  distribution  the  copies  remaining  in  the  hands 
of  the  county  clerk  shall  be  sold  at  auction  (ten  days'  notice  having  been 
given  in  three  public  places  in  such  county)  to  the  highest  bidder,  no 
j)erson,  however,  to  purchase  more  than  two  copies;  and  the  proceeds  of 
such  sale  shall  go,  first,  to  defray  the  cost  of  transportation  from  the  sec- 
retary of  state  to  the  county  clerk,  and  the  remainder,  if  any  shall  exist, 
shall  be  paid  over  to  the  state  librarian,  and  to  be  by  him  held  subject  to 
the  order  of  the  legislative  assembly. 

Secretary  of  State  Authorized  to  Sell  Copies  of  Laws. 

2126.  After  having  so  distributed  the  laws  and  journals  of  each  legisla- 
tive assembly,  the  secretary  is  authorized  to  sell  copies  of  the  laws  at  a 
price  at  least  equal  to  cost,  and  the  amount  so  received  shall  be  applied 
to  the  library  fund  of  the  state.  The  secretary  of  state  shall  deliver  all 
copies  of  the  laws  and  journals  yet  in  his  possession  to  the  state  librarian, 
who  shall  officirlly  receipt  therefor. 

Resident  United  States  Officers  Provided  for. 

2127.  The  librarian  shall,  upon  the  order  of  either  of  the  judges  of  the 
supreme  court,  issue  one  copy  each  to  the  district  attorney,  United 
States  Marshal,  each  register  and  receiver  of  all  United  States  land  of- 
fices in  the  state,  each  United  States  commissioner  residing  in  the  state, 
and  such  other  officers  as  the  judges  in  their  discretion  may  direct;  Pro- 
vided always,  That  the  librarian  shall  permit  no  person  to  take  away  a 
copy  or  copies  of  the  laws  and  journals  without  taking  a  receipt  therefor. 
Each  Incoming  Legislature  to  be  Provided  for  Witli  Laws  aAd 

Journals. 

2128.  The  members  of  each  succeeding  legislative  assembly  shall  be 
furnished  by  the  state  librarian,  at  the  commencement  of  each  session 
for  which  they  are  elected,  with  one  copy  each  of  the  laws  and  journals 
of  the  preceding  session. 

CHAPTER  LI. 
STATE  PRINTING. 

The  Printing  of  ISills,  Laws  and  Journals. 

4423.  The  printing  of  all  bills  for  the  legislature,  with  such  matters  as 
may  be  ordered  by  either  house  thereof,  to  be  priuted  in  bill  form,  shall 
be  let  in  one  contract.  The  printing  and  binding  in  one  contract. 
The  printing  and  binding  of  reports  of  state  officers  authorized  by  law  to 
be  printed,  and  all  other  reports  and  documents  ordered  by  the  legisla- 
ture, except  such  as  enter  into  and  form  a  part  of  the  journals,  shall  be 
let  in  another  contract.  The  printing  and  binding  of  the  laws,  joint  re- 
solutions, and  memorials  enacted  by  the  legislature  shall  be  let  in  anoth- 


58  STATUTOEY    PROVISIONS. 

er  contract.  And  the  printing  and  binding  of  all  blanks,  blank  books, 
and  circiilars  required  to  be  furnished  by  the  officers  of  the  executive  de- 
partment of  the  state  shall  be  let  in  another  contract. 

The  Printing  of  15ills  Sliall  be  Executed  Promptly. 

4433.  The  contractor  for  the  printing  of  bills  or  any  matter  printed  in 
bill  form  shall  promptly,  and  without  unnecessary  delay,  execute  all  or- 
ders of  the  legislature,  or  either  house  thereof,  for  such  printing,  and  for 
each  failure  to  complete  said  printing  within  three  days  after  receiving 
the  order  for  the  same  the  contractor  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of 
twenty-five  dollars,  to  be  deducted  from  his  account  on  settlement;  and  all 
contractors  under  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  Avithout  unnecessary  de- 
lay execute  all  orders  issued  to  them  by  the  printing  board,  and  the  con- 
tractor for  printing  and  binding  the  laws  shall  deliver  the  same  to  the 
secretary  of  state  within  sixty  days  after  the  adjournment  of  each  session 
of  the  legislature,  and  the  contractor  for  printing  and  binding  of  the 
journals  shall  deliver  the  same  to  the  secretary  of  state  within  ninety 
days  after  receiving  the  copy  thereof. 

Copy  to  be  Furnished  Witliout  Unnessesary  Delay. 

4434.  The  secretary  of  state  shall  furnish  a  true  and  accurate  copy  of 
tlie  laws  and  journals  as  they  may  be  demanded  by  the  printer  thereof, 
and  the  clerks  of  the  respective  branches  of  the  legislature  shall  each  fur- 
nish to  the  printer,  who  is  bound  by  his  contract  to  print  the  same,  copies 
of  the  journals,  bills,  reports,  and  other  papers  and  documents,  without 
unnecessary  delay,  and  no  contractor  shall  be  accountable  for  any  delay 
occasioned  by  the  want  of  such  copy. 

MISSCEIiANEOUS  PROVISIONS. 

Votes  Canvassed  by  the  L.egisiature. 

1633.  The  votes  cast  for  governor,  lieutenant  governor,  members  of 
congress,  secretary  of  state,  auditor  of  public  accounts,  state  treasurer, 
state  superintendent  of  public  instruction,  attorney  general,  commission- 
er of  public  lands  and  buildings,  and  district  attorneys,  and  votes  cast 
expressing  choice  for  United  States  senators  shall  be  canvassed  by  the 
legislature  at  its  next  regular  session.  A  copy  of  the  abstract  of  votes 
cAst  for  such  officers  shall  be  sealed  up  by  the  county  clerk  immediately 
upon  the  completion  of  the  canvass,  endorsed  "abstract  of  votes  cast  for 
officers  of  the  executive  department,  from  county,"  or,  "ab- 
stract of  votes  cast  expressing  the  choice  of  electors  for  United  States  sen- 
ator from  '■ county,"  and  addressed  to  "the  speaker  of  the  house 

of  representatives." 

Duplicate  Abstracts  to  the  Secretary  of  State. 

1634.  The  county  clerk  shall  at  the  same  time  envelope  and  seal  up  a 
duplicate  copy  of  the  same  abstracts  directed  to  the  secretary  of  state, 
and  all  the  abstracts  shall  be  placed  in  one  envelope  and  addressed  to 
the  secretary  of  state,  who  shall  preserve  the  ones  addressed  to  "the 
speaker  of  the  house  of  representatives"  unopend,  until  the  meeting  of  the 
legislature,  and  from  the  duplicate  copies  prepare  a  tabulated  sheet  of 
the  votes  cast  for  such  officers  and  preserve  the  same  for  use  of  the  legis- 
lature in  making  the  official  canvass  as  required  by  the  constitution. 

Shall  Hear  and  Determine  Contested  Election  Cases. 
1649.    The  legislature  in  joint  meeting  shall  hear  and  determine  cases 
of  contested  election  for  all  officers  of  the  executivee  department.     The 


STATUTOEY  PROVISION. 


meeting  of  the  two  houses,  to  decide  upon  such  elections,  shall  be  held 
in  the  hall  of  the  house  of  representatives,  and  the  speaker  of  the  house 
shall  preside. 

Contest  of  Members. 
1650.    The  senate  and  house  of  representatives  shall  severally  hear  and 
determine  contests  of  the  election  of  their  respective  members. 


DECISIONS  OF  THE  SUPREME  COURT. 

Bill  to  have  but  one  general  object  which  must  be  fairly  expressed  in 
the  title  6,  311,5,  516. 

Amendatory  act  valid  if  not  inconsistant  with  title  and  subject  matter 
of  amended  one,  though  there  be  apparent  confusion  in  application  to 
provisions  sought  to  be  amended,    2  7,  764,8  (43  N.  W.  1140)  89,  149. 

A  provision  in  an  amendatory  act  repealing  an  act  not  connected  with 
the  subject  of  the  amendment  is  void.  Where  title  has  two  subjects,  act 
may  be  sustained  as  to  one,    17.    85  (22  N.  W.  228). 

Part  of  an  act  may  be  valid  and  part  not.  16,  239  (20  N.  W.  312).  25 
457  (41  N.  W.  280). 

One  house  cannot  amend  title  of  bill  originating  in  the  other.  17,  394 
(23  N.  W.  3). 

It  is  sufficient  if  subject  is  farily  expressed  in  the  title.  16,  683  (21  N 
W.  398). 

Title  an  index  to  legislative  intent.    6  485. 

Title  of  amendatory  act  cannot  be  broader  than  the  original.  9,  511  (4. 
N,  W.  240.) 

An  act  broader  than  its  title  may  be  declared  void  as  to  the  excess,  but 
valid  as  to  the  rest.     25,  676  (41  N.  W.)  638). 

An  act  to  prohibit  the  fraudulent  tranfer  of  property  and  to  declare  the 
same  a  crime  and  to  prescribe  the  punishment  thereof  held  constitutional 
the  act  having  but  one  subject.    21,  53  (31  N.  W.  258). 

The  title  of  the  act  of  June  6, 1871.  Amending  sections  50,  51,  71  and 
105  of  revenue  act  valid.    13,  17  (12  N.  832). 

Section  3  of  "An  act  to  exempt  homesteads  from  Judicial  Sale,"  ap- 
proved February  19, 1877,  is  within  the  title  and  is  valid.  13  122  (12  N.  W. 
831). 

The  title  of  the  act  which  took  eflfect  September  1,  1879.  "Counties 
and  County  Officers"  is  not  open  to  the  constitutional  objection  of  con- 
taining more  than  one  subject.     15,  387  (11  N.  W.  495). 

When  title  of  act  is  to  amend  a  particular  section  of  the  statute,  the 
proposed  amendment  must  be  germane  to  the  subject  matter  of  the  sec- 
tion sought  to  be  amended.  11,377(9N.  W.  477.)  The  title  of  an  "Act 
regulating  the  herding  and  driving  of  stock,"  approved  February  26, 1879, 
is  not  comprehensive  enough  to  authorize  the  provision  in  section  four 
giving  damages  for  the  castration  of  animals.    13,    253  (13  N.  W.  276.) 

Where  an  act  not  complete  in  itself,  but  amendatory  of  a  former,  statute 
is  void.    7,    413 

Old  section  need  not  be  recited  in  amendatory  act.    1, 199. 

Law  complete  and  repealing  the  provisions  under  which  acts  were 
formerly  done  is  valid.    6,  36. 

Where  the  new  act  is  in  the  very  words  of  the  act  it  repeals,  and  the 
evident  intention  was  to  continue  it  in  force  (with  a  lesser  penalty),  this 


STATUTORY    PROVISIONS. 


intention  will  be  given  eflfect,  and  will  not  prevent  the  prosecution  for  a 
crime  committed  before  the  repeal.    15,  448  (19  N.  W.  686). 

Rule  as  to  repeal  of  statutes  by  implication.    18, 140  (24  N.  W.  447). 

Two  amendments  to  same  same  act  on  succeeding  days,  how  interpre- 
ted.   23, 134  (36  N.  W.  348). 

A  later  statute,  which  contains  provisions  clearly  repugnant  to  a  former 
repeals  the  former  as  completly  as  though  it  contained  express  words  to 
that  effect.    14,  31  (14  N.  W.  660). 

Legislature  cannot  pass  law  to  legalize  bonds   already  issued.    6,  234. 

Does  not  require  the  printing  of  amendments  after  the  bill  has  been  put 
upon  its  final  passage.    9,  494  (4  N.  W.  75). 

Failure  of  the  presiding  officer  of  the  senate  to  sign  a  bill  which  the 
journal  shows  passed  does  not  effect  the  validity  of  the  act.  9, 129  (1  N. 
W.  100).     17,  88  (22  N.  W.  119). 

The  certificate  of  the  presiding  officers  that  the  bill  has  passed  is  only 
prtmo /octe  evidence  of  the  fact.  The  journals  are  higher  evidence.  18, 
237  (25  N.  W.  77). 

In  amending  an  act  it  may  be  designated  by  its  title  or  chapter  in  the 
statutes.     20,  377  (30  N.  W.  267).    25,  817  (41  N.  W.  796). 

Fiscal  q\iarter  means  the  legislative  quarter  in  which  the  session  is  to 
be  held  5,  570. 

Fiscal  year  begins  December  1st.  Appropriations  extend  to  the  end  of 
first  quarter  after  adjournment  of  next  regular  session.  22,38(33  N.  W.- 
711). 

Where  entire  amount  derived  from  sale  of  state  lots  and  lands,  was 
appropriated,  and  sale  was  made  partly  on  credit,  held  that  warrants 
could  be  drawn  upon  the  whole  amount  of  purchase  price  at  once,  and 
without  waiting  for  full  payment  thereof.    24,  790  (40  N.  W.  316)  ■ 

See  note  to  the  section  22  citing  14,  444  (16  N.  W.  481). 

As  to  what  constitute  a  vacancy.    17,  599  (24  N.  W.  282). 

Intended  to  establish  a  permanent  rule  in  regard  to  future  payments 
of  expenditures  of  the  state.    6,  513. 

A  specific  appropriation  is  one  expressly  providing  funds  for  a  parti- 
cular purpose.    15,  609  (19  N.W  .596). 

No  appropriation  necessary  to  pay  salary  of  officers  fixed  by  constitu- 
tion. Officers  whose  salaries  are  not  fixed  by  the  constitution  depend  up- 
on legislative  appropriation.    4,  218  6, 17. 

The  voucher  of  the  officers  of  the  senate  will  not  authorize  the  auditor 
to  draw  a  warrant  in  favor  of  a  party,  unless  the  claim  is  authorized  by 
law.     14,  444  (16  N.  W.  481). 

An  appropriation  for  "conveying  convicts  to  the  penitentiary"  cannot 
be  drawn  against  for  "conveying  juvenile  ofiendors  to  the  reform 
school."     12,  408  (11  N.  W.  860). 

Money  due  county  treasurer  as  fees  cannot  be  paid  except  where  their 
is  a  specific  appropriation.    18,  222  (24  N.  W,  683). 

Appropriation  of  195,000.00  to  provide  for  the  salaries  of  nineteen  judg- 
es is  an  appropriation  in  gross.    21,  662  (33  N.  W.  426).  ' 

Each  appropriation  contained  in  the  general  appropriation  bill  must 
be  a  specific  appropriation  for  the  purpose  named  and  the  account  must 
be  itemized.    22,  45  (33  N.  W.  711).    See  4,  507.    9,  470  (4  N.  W.  61). 


DECISIONS  OF  THE  HOUSE  OF  BEPRESENTATIVES  ON  POINTS  OF  ORDER.     61 

DECISIONS    OF  THE    HOUSE  OF    REPRESENTATIVES 
ON  POINTS  OF  ORDER.* 

ADJOURN  SINIE  DIE. 
In  Order. 

During  the  third  day  of  the  session,  a  motion  was  made  to  adjourn 
sinie  die.  The  speaker  ruled  the  motion  out  of  order,  but  upon  an  appeal 
the  decision  of  the  chair  was  reversed,  but  when  the  motion  to  adjourn 
smie  die  was  put  to  the  house  it  failed  by  one  vote.  Journal  H.  R.  186G, 
p.  11. 

AMENDMENTS. 

Can  not  Amend  a  Senate  Message. 

The  speaker  ruled  tnat  the  house  can  not  amend  a  senate  message. 
(Journal  H.  R.  1881,  p.  108). 

Former    Action  can  only  be  Reached  by  a  Reconsideration. 
Point   of  order  raised  that  when   a  substance  of    an    amendment  has 
been  decided  by  a  former  action  of  the  house,  it  could    only  be  reacheii 
by  a  motion  to  reconsider,  sustained  by  the  chair.    (Journal  H.  R.  1887, 
p.  502). 

BALI.OTING   FOR  CANDIDATES. 

Dropping  Candidates  from  the  l<ist. 

While  balloting  for  candidates  a  motion  w&s  made  to   drop   from  the 

list  the  candidates  having  received  the  least   number  of   votes,  against 

which   a   point  of   order  was  raised.    Sustained.    (Journal,  H.  R.  1876-7, 

p.  47). 

BILLS. 

To  take  a  Bill  out  of  its  place  in  the  File   on  Third    Reading   takes 

a  Two-Thirds  Majority. 

The  speaker  ruled  that  it  takes  a  two-thirds  majority  to  take  a  bill  out 

of  its  place  on  third  reading.    An  appeal  was  taken,  and  the  chair  was 

sustained.    (Journal  H.  R.  1883,  p.  885.) 

Not  in  Order  to  Table  a  Bill  on  its  Second  Reading. 
Upon  a  point  of  order  raised  the  speaker  ruled  that  it  was  out  of  order 
to  table  a  bill  on  its  second  reading.    (Journal  H.  R.  1879,  p.  136.) 
The  House  can  Take  Action  on  Bills  Still  in  the  Hands  of  Standing 
Committees. 
Point  of  order  raised  "that  as  the  resolution  contained  house  rolls 
which  were  still  in  the  possession  of  the  standing  committees,  and  not 
reported  with  favorable  recommendation,  therefor  the  resolution  was 
not  in  order,"    Over  ruled  by  the  speaker.    (Journal  H.  R.  1885,  p.  861.) 
In  Making  a  Special  Order  for  Several  Bills. 
A  resolution    suspending  the  rules  and  making  a  number  of  bills  on 
the  general  file  a  special  order,  a  division  of  the  subject  was  called  for, 
and  a  motion  made  "that  a  vote  be  taken  on  each  bill  seperately."     The 
motion  ruled  out  of  order  by  the  speaker,  and  on  an  appeal,  the  chair  was 
sustained.    (Journal  H.  R.  1885  p.  860.) 

A  Bill  on  its  Third  Reading  Cannot  be  Discussed. 
While  a  bill  was  on  its  third  reading  a  member  obtained  the  floor  and 
proceeded  to  discuss  the  objects  of  the  bill.    The  speaker  ruled  discussion 

*  [These  decisions  are  published  as  found  in  the  journals  of  the  house 
of  representatives.  Their  correctness  as  ruling  is  left  to  the  judgment  of 
the  reader.] 


l62     DECISIONS  OF  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES  ON  POINTS  OF  ORDER. 

j  out  of  order,  on  an  appeal,  the  chair  was  sustained.    (Journal  H.  R.  1885 
p.  1271.) 

Not  in  Order  to  Becommit  a  Bill  on  its  Final  Passage. 

After  the  reading  and  pending  the  vote  on  the  passage  of  a  bill  a  mo- 
tion was  made  to  recommit  the  bill.  The  speaker  ruled  the  motion  out 
of  order.  An  appeal  was  taken  and  the  chair  was  sustained.  [Journal 
1887,  p.  1275.] 

Cannot  Have  Vote  Becorded  on  the  Fassagre  of  a  Bill  after  the 
Fate  of  the  Bill  is  decided, 

A  point  of  order  raised  that  it  was  not  in  order  for  a  member  of  the 
house  to  vote  upon  the  question  of  the  final  passage  of  a  bill  after  a  yea 
and  nay  vote  had  been  taken  and  the  fate  of  the  bill  decided.  Sustained 
by  the  speaker.    [Journal  H.  R.  1885,  p.  626. 

When  a  Bill  has  Passed  a  Motion  to  Becommit  is  out  of  Order. 

After  a  bill  had  passed  and  received  a  constitutional  majority,  a  mo- 
tion was  made  to  recommit  the  bill  to  the  committee  of  the  whole.  A 
point  of  order  was  raised  that  the  motion  to  recommit,  under  rule  47, 
was  out  of  order,  sustained  by  the  speaker.    (Journal  H.  R.  1885,  p.  882). 

Held  that  Bills  can  be  Considered  out  of  their   Begular  Order. 

A  point  of  order  raised  "that  the  house  having  just  adopted  a  special 
order  file  of  bills  for  consideration  it  was  not  in  order  to  consider  house 
rolls  out  of  their  regular  order,"  not  sustained  by  the  chair.  (Journal 
H.  R.  1885,  p.  949. 

Any  Motion  Out  of  Order. 

A  point  of  order  raised  "that  after  a  bill  has  been  read  the  third   time 
any  motion  is   out   of  order."    Sustained    by  the  chair.    (Journal  H.  R. 
1887,  p.  1137). 
Amendments  in  Order  After  Bill  has  Passed  to  a  Third   Beading. 

The  speaker  ruled  after  a  bill  has  passed  to  a  third  reading  amendments 
are  in  order.  On  an  appeal  the  chair  was  sustained.  (Journal  H.  R 
1873,  p.  330,  346). 

The  Order  of  Bills  on  Third  Beading. 

Upon  a  point  of  order  raised  "that  it  would  require  a  two-thirds  majori- 
ty to  suspend  the  order  of  bills  on   third   reading."    Sustained  by  the 
speaker,  but  over -ruled  by  the  house.    [Journal  H.  R.  1891,  p.  530]. 
Call  of  the  House  May  be  Made  at  any  Time. 

Point  of  order  raised. 

"That  there  has  been  no  intervening  business  since  the  last  call  of  the 
house,  therefore  a  renewal  of  the  call  was  out  of  order."  The  speaker 
ruled  that  under  rules  33  and  36  the  call  of  the  house  may  be  made  at  any 
time  when  seconded  by  two  members,  and  the  absentees  must  be  sent  for 
at  any  time  when  demanded  by  five  members.  [Journal  H.  R.  1889,  p.  515]. 

Joint  Committee. 

House  Can  Not  Discharge  Committee  After  Being  Appointed. 

A  motion  being  made  to  discharge  the  members  on  the  part  of  the  house 
on  a  joint  committee,  a  point  of  order  was  raised,  that  the  action  of  the 
house  in  the  appointment  of  the  committee  had  passed  from  the  house  to 
the  senate,  and  therefore  it  was  not  competent  for  the  house  to  take 
action  in  the  matter.  The  speaker  sustained  the  point  of  order,  and  on  an 
appeal  the  house  sustained  the  chair.  [Journal  H.  R.  1883,  p.  176. 


DECISIONS  OF  THE  HOUSE  OP  EE  PRESBNTATIVBS  ON  POINTS  OP  ORDBB.     63 

COMMITTEE  OF  THE  WHOI.E. 

Not  Competent  for  the  House  to  Adopt  Rules  GovernLng  the  Com- 
mittee of  the  Whole. 

A  resolution  being  offered  "that  when  the  house  is  in  committee  of  the 
whole,  no  member  shall  speak  more  than  once  on  the  same  subject;  nor 
longer  than  five  minutes;"  declared  out  of  order  by  the  speaker.  [Jour- 
nal H.  R.  1885,  p.  737  and  981.] 

COMMITTEE    REPORTS. 
Minority  Report  can  not  be  Entertained    Until  Majority  Report  is 

Made. 

Point  of  order:  "That  the  report  of  the  minority  can  not  be  entertained 
until  the  majority  has  reported.  Sustained  by  the  speaker.  [Journal 
11.  R.  1881,  p.  162,169]. 

A  Motion  in  Conflict  With  an  Adopted  Committee    Report  out  of 
Order. 

The  speaker  ruled  that  a  motion  in  conflict  with  the  report  of  a  committee 
already  adopted,  is  out  of  order.    [Journal  H.  R.  1889,  p.  1123]. 
A  Report  not  to  be  Considered  Twice. 

Upon  a  point  of  order  raised,  the  speaker  decided  it  incompetent  for  the 
house  to  again  consider  a  report  upon  which  action  has  once  been  passed 
upon  and  settled  by  the  house  this  day.    [Journal  II.  R.  1889,  p.  669). 
Recommendation  to  Recommit  Takes  Tlie  Precedence. 

Upon  a  point  of  order  raised  "that  the  recommendation  of  thecommitee 
of  the  whole  to  recommit,  took  the  precedence  of  a  motion  to  order  the 
bill  engrossed  to  a  third  reading,"  Sustained.  [Journal  H.  R.  1889,  p. 
1138.] 

A  Minority  Report  not  an  Amendment  of  the  Majority  Report. 

Upon  the  point  of  order  that  an  amendment  proposed,  be  put  to  the 
house  before  the  main  question,  and  that  a  minority  report  of  a  com- 
mittee by  the  usages  and  rules  of  parlimentary  law,  is  an  amendment 
to  the  majority  report,  and  should  therefore  be  first  considered,  the  chair 
ruled  adversly,  and  upon  an  appeal  was  sustained  by  the  house.  (Jour- 
nal H.  R.  1886,  p.  32.) 

Can  Not  be  Tabled. 

Upon  a  point  of  order  raised  "that  a  report  of  committee  acting  under 
instruction  of  the  house  could  not  be  tabled."  Sustained.  [Journal  H. 
R.  1891,  p.  219. 

CONTEST  CASES. 

Interested  Parties  May  Vote. 

Point  of  order  raised  "that  in  a  contest  case  before  the  house  the  inter- 
ested members  could  not  vote  upon  a  question  refering  to  said  contest." 
Over  ruled  by  the  speaker,  and  on  an  appeal  the  chair  was  sustained. 
[Journal  II.  R.  1866,  p.  8.] 

INDEFINITE  POSTPONEMENT, 
A  Motion  to  Indelinently  Postpone  Cannot  be  Amended. 
A  motion  being  made  to  indefinitely  postpone  a  bill,  a  motion  was  made 
to  amend  that  the  bill  be  ordered  engrossed  for  a  third  reading.    The 
"V3int  of  order  was  raised,  "that  a  motion  to  indefinitely  postpone  cannot 
be  amended."    Sustained  by  the  chair.    [Journal  H.   R.  1887  p.  1435.] 
A    motion  to   Indefinitely    Postpone,    Once    Decided    can  not    be 
Renewed. 
Point  of  order  raised  "that  a  motion  to   indefinitely   postpone  having 


64     DECISIONS  OF  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES  ON  POINTS  OF  ORDER. 

once  been  decided,  could  not  be  again  made  at  the  same  stage  of  proceed- 
ings.   (Journal  H.  R.  1889.  p.  1535.) 

READING  OF  THE  JOURNAIi. 
Can  not  be  Dispensed  with. 
"Pending  the  reading,"  of  the  journal,  a  motion  was  made  to  dispense 
with  the  further  reading  of  the  journal.    Motion  ruled  out  of  order  by  the 
speaker.    (Journal  H.  R.  1866,  p.  9.) 

RECONSIDER. 
Motion  For  need  not  be  made  the  Same  day. 
Point  of  order  raised  "that  a  motion  to  reconsider   must  be   made  the 
same  day  the  resolution  is  adopted."    The  speaker  over-ruled  the  point 
of  order  (Journal  H.  R.  1881,  p.  68.) 

Part  of  a  Subject  Matter  once  Acted  upon  can  not  be  Reconsidered. 
Point  of  order   raised  "that  a  motion  to  reconsider  a  part  of   a  subject 
matter  that  has  been  acted  upon  by   a  deliberate   body,  is   out  of  order. 
The  speaker  sustained  the  point  of  order.    [Journal  H.  R.  1881,  p.  69. 
REFERENCE. 
Refer  takes  Precedence. 
Point  of  order  raised  "that  a  motion  to  refer  takes  precedence  over  a 
substitute."    Sustained  by  the  speaker.    Journal  H.  R.  1881  p.  101. 
RESOLUTIONS. 
Not  a  Concurrent  Resolution. 
Upon  a  resolution  asking  the  senate  to  concur  in  an  adjournment,  the 
point  of  order  was  raised  "that  being  a  concurrent  resolution  under  rule 
43  it  should  be  read  at  large  on  three  different  days."    The  point  of  order 
over-ruled.    [Journal  H.  R.  1885,  p.  432, 

ROLI.  CALL. 
Can  not   be  Interrupted  by  a  call  of  the  House. 
The  speaker  ruled  that  roll  call  could  not  be  interrupted  by  a   call  of 
the  house.    (Journal  H.  R.  1866,  p.  1192). 

During  roll  call  a  Motion  out  of  Order. 
The  speaker  ruled  that  pending  a  call  for  the  ayes  and  nayes  a  motion 
is  out  of  order.     Upon  an  appeal  the  chair  was  sutained.    [Journal  H.  R. 
1866,  p.  11). 

Sergeant-at-arms,    Assistant,   Provided   for  in   Statutes. 
Point  of  order  raised  "that  the  position  of  assistant  sergeant-at-arms  was 
not  provided  for  in  the  general  statutes."    The  speaker  decided  the  point 
of  order  not  well  taken.    [Journal  H.  R.  1876,  p.  46]. 
TO  TABLE. 
A  Defeated  Motion  to  table  can  not  again  be  Entertained. 
A  point  of  order  was  raised  "that  when  a  motion  to  table  has  been  de- 
feated, it  can  not  again  be  entertained  upon  the  same  suject."   Sustained 
[Journal  H.  R.  1889,  p.  1123]. 


HANUAL  OF  PARLIAMENTARY  PRACTICE. 


MANUAL  OF  PARLIAriENTARY  PRACTICE. 

[A  condensed  summary  of  Cushing's  mannual  as  applicable  to  the 
every  day  questions  arising  In  all  legislative  bodies,  compiled  by  Eric 
Johnson,  chief  clerk,  1891-3]. 

Importance   of  Rules. 

It  is  highly  important  to  the  preservation  of  order,  decency,  and  regu- 
larity, in  a  numerous  assembly,  and  not  least  essential  to  its  power  of 
harmonious  and  efficient  action,  that  its  proceedings  should  be  regulated 
by  established  forms  and  methods;  and,  with  a  view  to  thtse  purposes,  it 
is  more  material,  perhaps,  that  there  should  be  rules  established,  than 
that  they  should  be  founded  upon  the  firmest  basis  of  reason  and  argu- 
ment; the  great  object  being  to  effect  a  uniformity  of  proceeding  in  the 
business  of  the  assembly,  securing  it  at  once  against  the  caprice  of 
the  presiding  officer,  and  the  captious  disputes  of  members.  It  is  to  the 
observance  of  regularity  and  order  among  the  members,  that  the  mi- 
nority look  for  protection  against  the  power  of  the  majority;  and  in  the 
adherence  to  established  forms,  between  the  different  branches,  that  each 
finds  its  security  against  the  encrochments  of  the  other. 

QUORUM. 

The  number  necessary  to  constitute  a  quorum  of  any  assembly  may  be 
fixed  by  law,  as  in  the  case  with  most  of  our  legislative  assemblies;  but 
if  no  rule  is  established  on  the  subject,  a  majority  of  the  members 
composing  the  assembly  is  the  requisite  number. 

No  business  can  regularly  be  entered  upon  until  a  quorum  is  present; 
nor  can  any  business  be  regularly  proceeded  with  when  it  appears  that 
the  members  present  are  reduced  below  that  number;  consequently  the 
presiding  officer  ought  not  to  take  the  chair  until  the  proper  number  is 
ascertained  to  be  present;  and  if  at  any  time,  in  the  course  of  the  proceed- 
ings notice  is  taken  that  a  quorum  is  not  present,  and,  upon  the  members 
being  counted  by  the  presiding  officer,  sucli  appears  to  be  the  fact,  the 
assembly  must  be  immediately  adjourned. 

Rules  and  Orders. 

"When  a  code  of  rules  is  adopted  beforehand,  it  is  usual  also  to  provide 
therein  as  to  the  mode  in  which  they  may  be  amended,  repealed,  or  dis- 
pensed with.  Where  there  is  no  provison,  it  will  be  competent  for  the 
assembly  to  act  at  any  time,  and  in  the  usual  manner,  upon  questions  of 
amendment  or  repeal;  but  in  reference  to  dispensing  with  a  rule  or  sus- 
pending it,  in  a  particular  ease,  if  there  is  no  express  provision  on  tlie 
subject,  it  seems  that  it  can  only  be  done  by  general  consent. 

The  terms  "general  consent"  as  used  in  parliamentary  practice,  denote 
the  unanimous  opinion  of  the  assembly  when  their  opinion  is  expressed 
informally,  and  not  by  means  of  a  vote.  Whenever,  therefore,  it  is  said 
that  the  "general  consent  of  the  assembly  is  necessary  to  the  adoption  of 
any  measure  it  is  to  be  understood,  that  if  the  question  is  proposed  in- 
formally, no  objection  must  be  made  to  it,  or  that,  if  proposed  in  a  formal 
manner,  the  vote  in  its  favor  must  be  unanimous. 

When  any  of  the  rules  adopted  by  the  assembly  or  in  force,  relative  to 
its  manner  of  proceeding,  is  disregarded  or  infringed,  every  member  has 
the  right  to  take  notice  thereof,  and  to  require  that  the  presiding  otiieer, 
or  any  other  whose  duty  it  is,  shall  carry  such  rule  into  execution;    and 


MANUAL  OF  PARLIAMENTARY  PRACTICE. 


in  that  case  the  rule  must  be  enforced  at  onoe,  without  debate  or  delay . 
It  is  then  too  late  to  alter,  repeal,  or  suspend  the  rule:  so  long  as  any 
one  member  insists  upon  its  execution,  it  must  be  enforced. 

The  Presiding  Officer. 

The  principal  duties  of  this  officer  are  the  following: —  ' 

To  open  the  sitting  at  the  time  to  which  the  assembly  is  adjourned. 

To  announce  the  business  before  the  assembly,  in  the  order  in  which  it 
is  to  be  acted  upon; 

To  receive  and  submit  in  the  proper  manner,  all  motions  and  proposi- 
tons  presented  by  the  members; 

To  put  to  vote  all  questions  which  are  regularly  moved,  or  necessarily 
arise  in  the  course  of  the  proceedings,  and  to  announce  the  result; 

To  restrain  the  members,  when  engaged  in  debate,  within  the  rules  of 
order; 

To  enforce  on  all  occasions  the  observance  of  order  and  decorum  among 
the  members; 

To  receive  all  messages  and  other  communications,  and  announce 
them  to  the  assembly. 

The  presiding  officer  may  read  sitting  but  should  rise  to  state  a  motion 
or  put  a  question  to  the  assembly. 

The  Recording   Officer. 

He  is  to  enter  what  is  done  and  past,  but  not  what  is  said  or  moved. 

It  is  also  the  duty  of  the  secretary  to  read  all  papers,  etc.,  which  may, 
be  ordered  to  be  read. 

The  clerk  is  also  charged  with  the  custody  of  all  the  papers  and  docu- 
ments of  every  description,  belonging  to  the  assembly,  as  well  as  the 
journal  of  its  proceedings,  and  is  to  let  none  of  them  be  taken  from  the 
table  by  any  member  or  other  person,  without  the  leave  or  order  of  the 
assembly. 

OF  THE  RIGHTS  AND  DUTIES  OF  MEMBERS. 

Ever  member,  however  humble  he  may  be,  has  the  same  right  with 
every  other,  to  submit  his  propositions  to  the  assembly,  to  explain  and 
recommend  them  in  discussion,  and  to  have  them  patiently  examined 
and  deliberately  decided  upon  by  the  assembly;  and,  on  the  other  hand, 
it  is  the  duty  of  every  one  so  to  conduct  himself,  both  in  debate  and  in 
his  general  deportment  in  the  assembly,  as  not  to  obstruct  any  other 
member  in  the  enjoy  merit  of  his  equal  rights. 

The  observance  of  decorum  by  the  members  of  a  deliberative  assembly 
is  not  only  due  to  themselves  and  to  one  another  as  gentlemen  assem- 
bled together  to  deliberate  on  matters  of  c  ommon  importance  and  inter- 
est, but  is  also  essential  to  the  regular  and  satisfactorv  proceeding  of 
such  an  assembly.  No  member  is  to  disturb  another  or  the  assembly 
itself  by  hissing,  coughing,  or  spitting;  by  speaking  or  whispering  to 
other  members;  by  standing  up  to  the  interruption  of  others;  by  passing 
between  the  presiding  officer  and  a  member  speaking;  going  across  the 
assembly-room,  or  walking  up  and  down  in  it. 

Assaults  by  one  member  upon  another,  threats,  challenge,  affrays,  etc. 
are  also  high  breaches  of  decorum. 

The  only  punishments  which  can  be  inflicted  upon  its  members,  by  a 
deliberative  assembly  of  the  kind  now  under  consideration,  con- 
Bist  of  Beprimanding,  to  which  are  to  be  added  such  other  forms  of  pun- 


MAKtJAL  Of  l»AEtT  .  MENTARV  tftACtlCfi.  67 

ishment,  as  by  apology,  begging  pardon,  etc.,  as  the  assembly  may  see  tit 
to  impose. 

OF  THE  INTRODUCTION  OF  BUSINESS. 

When  n  member  has   occasion  to  make  any  communication  whatever 

to  the  assembly, whether  to  present  a  petition  or  other  paper,   or  to 

make  or  second  a  motion  of  any  kind,  or  merely  to  make  a  verbal  state- 
ment,  as  well  as  when  one  desires  to  address  the  assembly  in  the  de- 
bate, he  must  in  the  first,  place  as  the  expression  is,  "obtain  the  floor'*  for 
the  purpose  he  has  in  view.  In  order  to  do  this,  he  must  rise  in  his  place 
and,  standing  uncovered  address  himself  to  the  presiding  officer  by  his 
title,  the  latter  on  hearing  himself  thus  addressed,  calls  to  the  members 
by  his  county,  and  the  member  may  then,  but  not  before  proceed  with 
his  business. 

If  two  or  more  members  rise  and  address  themselves  to  the  presiding 
officer  at  the  same  time,  or  nearly  so,  he  should  give  the  floor  to  the 
member  whose  voice  he  first  heard. 

A  petition,  in  order  to  be  received,  should  be  subscribed  by  the  peti- 
tioner himself,  with  his  own  hand,  either  by  name  or  mark. 

Whenever  a  member  introduces  a  proposition  of  his  own,  for  the  con- 
sideration of  the  assembly,  he  puts  it  into  the  form  he  desires  it  should 
have,  and  then  moves  that  it  be  adopted  as  the  resolution,  order  or  vote 
of  the  assembly.  If  this  proposition  so  far  meets  approbation  of  other 
members  that  one  of  them  rises  in  his  place,  and  seconds  it,  it  may  then 
be  put  to  the  assembly;  and  the  result,  whether  affirmative  or  negatively 
becomes  the  judgement   of  the  assembly. 

A  motion  must  be  submitted  in  writing;  otherwise  the  presiding 
officer  will  be  justified  in  refusing  to  receive  it. 

When  a  motion  has  been  made  and  received,  it  is  then  to  be  stated  by 
the  presiding  officer  to  the  iissembly,  and  thus  becomes  a  question  for  its 
decision;  and,  until  so  stated,  it  is  not  in  order  for  any  member  to 
speak  to  it,  but  when  moved,  seconded,  and  stated  from  the  chair,  e 
motion  is  in  the  possession  of  the  assembly  and  cannot  be  withdrawn  by 
the  mover,  but  by  special  leave  of  the  assembly,  which  must  be  obtained 
by  a  motion  made  and  seconded  as  in  other  cases. 

Previous  Question. 

This  motion  was  introduced  into  the  House  of  Commons  In  England 
more  than  two  centuries  ago,  and  for  the  purpose  of  suppressing  subjects  of 
a  delicate  nature  relating  to  high  personages,  or  the  discussion  of  which 
might  call  forth  observations  of  an  injurious  tendency.  When  first 
made  use  of,  the  form  of  the  motion  was,  "shall  the  main  question  be 
put?"  and  the  ertect  of  a  decision  of  it  in  the  negative  was  to  suppress  the 
main  question  for  the  whole  session.  The  form  of  it  was  afterwards 
changed  to  that  which  it  has  at  present,  namely,  "shall  the  main 
question  be  now  put?"  and  the  effect  of  a  negative  decision  of  it  now  is  to 
suppress  the  main  question  for  the  residue  of  the  day  only.  This  is  the 
purpose  for  which  the  previous  question  was  originally  invented,  and  for 
which  it  is  still  used  in  the  British  Parliament.  But  the  previous  ques- 
tion ma.v  be  decided  in  the  affirmative,  as  well  as  the  negative;  that  is, 
that  the  main  questi(m  shall  now  be  put  immediately,  without  any 
further  debate,  and  the  form  in  which  it  then  exists.  This  operation  of 
the  previous  question,  when  decided  affirmatively,  has  led  to  the  use  of  it 


68  MANUAL  OF  PARLIAMENTARY  PRACTICE. 

for  the  purpose  of  surpressing  debate  on  a  principal  question,  and  coming 
to  a  vote  upon  it  immediately;  and  this  is  ofdinarly  the  only  object  of 
the  previous  question,  as  made  use  of  in  the  legislative  assemblies  of 
the  Ignited  States. 

Indefinite  Postponement. 
In  order  to  suppress  a  question  altogether,  without  coming  to  a  direct 
vote  upon  it,  in  such  a  manner  that  it  cannot  be  renewed,  the  proper 
motion  is  for  indefinite  postponement;  that  is,  a  postponement  or  ad- 
journment of  the  question,  without  fixing  any  day  for  resuming  it.  The 
effect  of  this  motion,  if  decided  in  the  affirmative,  is  to  quash  the  propo- 
sition entirely.    A  negative  decision  has  no  effect  whatever. 

OF  MOTIONS  TO  POSTPONE. 

The  assembly  is  Avilling  to  entertain  and  consider  a  question,  but  not 
at  the  time  when  it  is  moved,  the  proper  course  is  either  to  postpose  the 
subject  to  another  day,  or  to  order  it  to  lie  on  the  table. 

When  the  members     individiially  want  more  information  than  they 
possess  at  the  time  a  question  is  moved,  or  desire  further    time  for  re- 
flection and  examination,  the  proper  motion  is,  to  postpone  the   subject 
to  such  future  day  as  will  answer  the  views  of  the  assembly. 
OF  MOTIONS   TO  COMMIT. 

The  third  case  for  the  use  of  a  subsidiary  motion,  occurs  when  the 
subject-matter  of  a  proposition  is  regarded  with  favor,  biit  the  form  in 
which  it  is  introduced  is  so  defective,  that  a  more  careful  and  deliberate 
consideration  is  necessary  than  can  conveniently  be  given  to  it  in  the 
assembly  itself,  in  order  to  put  it  into  a  satisfactory  form.  The  course  of 
proceeding  then  is,  to  refer  the  subject  to  a  committee,  which  is  called  a 
commitment;  or,  if  the  subject  has  already  been  in  the  hands  of  a  com- 
mittee, a  recommitment,  a  part  only  of  a  subject  may  be  committed, 
without  the  residue;  or  different  parts  may  be  committed  to  different 
committees. 

OF   MOTIONS  TO  AMEND. 

The  last  case,  for  the  introduction  of  subsidiary  motions,  is  when 
the  assembly  is  satisfied  with  the  subject-matter  of  a  i)roposition, 
but  not  with  the  form  of  it,  or  with  all  its  different  parts  or  desires 
to  make  some  addition  to  it.  The  course  of  proceeding  then  is  to  bring 
the  proposition  into  the  proper  form,  and  make  its  details  satisfactory 
by  means  of  amendments. 

Division  of  a  Question. 

When  a  proposition  or  motion  is  complicated,  that  is,  composed 
of  Iwo  or  more  parts  which  are  so  far  independent  of  each  other  as 
to  be  suscei>tible  of  division  into  several  questions,  and  it  is  supposed 
that  the  assembly  may  approve  of  some  but  not  of  all  these  parts,  it  is  a 
Compendious  mode  made  of  amendment  to  divide  the  motion  into  sepa- 
rate (luestions,  to  be  separately  voted  upon  and  decided  l;y  the  assembly, 
a  proposition,  to  be  divisible,  must  comprehend  points  so  distinct  and 
entire,  that,  if  one  or  more  of  them  be  taken  away,  the  others  may  stand 
entire  and  by  themselves. 

FILLING  BLANKS. 

It  often  happens  that  a  proposition  is  introduced  with  blanks  purposely 
left  by  the  mover  to  be  filled  by  the  assembly,   either  with    times  and 


MANUAL  OP    PABLIAMENTARY  PRACTICB. 


numbers,  or  with  provisions  analogous  to  those  of  the  proposition  itself 
In  the  latter  case,  blanks  are  filled  in  the  same  way  that  other  amendments 
by  the  insertion  of  words  are  made.    In  the  former  propositions  to  fill 
blanks  are  not  considered  as  amendments  to  the  question,  but  as  original, 
motions,  to  be  made  and  decided  before  the  principal  question. 

The  rule  is,  that  if  the  larger  comprehends  the  lesser,  as  in  question  to 
what  day  a  postponement  shall  take  place,  the  number,  of  which  a  com- 
mittee shall  consist,  the  amount  of  a  fine  to  be  imposed.  The  question 
must  begin  a  mazimo  and  be  first  taken  upon  the  greatest  or  farthest 
and  so  on  to  the  least  or  nearest,  until  the  assembly  comes  to  a  vote ;  but  if 
the  lesser  include  the  greater,  as  in  questions  on  the  limitation  of  the  rate 
of  interest,  on  the  amount  of  a  tax,  on  what  day  the  session  of  a  legislative 
assembly  shall  be  closed  by  adjournment,  or  what  day  the  next  session 
shall  commence,  the  question  must  first  be  taken  on  the  least  or  nearest, 
and  so  on  to  the  greatest  or  most  remote  until  the  assembly  comes  to  a  vote. 

GENERAL  RULES  RELATING  TO  AMENDMENTS. 

All  amendments  of  which  a  proposition  is  susceptible,  as  far  as  form  is 
concerned,  may  be  effected  in  one  of  three  ways:  namely,  either  by  in- 
serting or  adding  certain  words;  or  by  striking  out  certain  words;   or 
striking  out  certain  words,  and  inserting  or  adding  others. 
Amendments  by  Striking   Out. 

If  an  amendment  is  proposed  by  striking  out  a  particular  paragraph  or 
certain  words,  and  the  amendment  is  rejected,  it  cannot  be  again  moved 
to  strike  out  the  same  words  or  a  part  of  them. 

If  an  amendment  by  striking  out  is  agreed  to,  it  cannot  be  afterwards 
moved  to  insert  the  same  words  struck  out,  or  a  part  of  them. 

Amendment  by  Inserting:. 

If  an  amendment  is  proposed  by  inserting  or  adding  a  paragraph  or 
words  and  the  amendment  is  rejected,  it  cannot  be  moved  again  to  insert 
the  same  w  ords  or  a  part  of  them. 

If  it  is  proposed  to  amend  by  in  serting  a  paragraph,  and  the  amendment 
prevails,  it  cannot  be  afterwards  moved  to  strike  out  the  same  words  or  a 
part  of  them. 

Amendment  by  Striking  out  and  Inserting. 

The  third  form  of  amending  a  proposition,  namely  by  striking  out 
certain  words  and  inserting  others  in  their  place. 

If  the  motion  is  divided,  the  question  is  first  to  be  taken  on  striking 
out,  and,  if  that  is  decided  in  the  affirmative,  then  on  inserting;  but  if 
the  former  is  decided  in  the  negative,  the  latter  falls,  of  course 

If  the  motion  to  strike  out  and  insert  is  put  to  the  question  mdivided 
and  is  decided  in  the  negative,  the  same  motion  cannot  be  made  again. 

If  the  motion  to  strike  out  and  insert  is  decided  in  the  afiirmative,  it 
cannot  be  then  moved  to  insert  the  words  struck  out  or  a  part  of  them, 
or  to  strike  out  the  words  inserted  or  a  part  of  them. 

Amendments  Clianging  tlie  Nature  of  a  Question. 

It  is  allowable  to  amend  a  proposition  in  such  a  manner  as  entirely  to 
alter  its  nature,  and  to  make  it  bear  a  sense  different  from  what  it  was 
originally  intended  to  bear;  so  that  the  friends  of  it,  as  it  was  first  intro- 
duced, may  themselves  be  forced  to  vote  against  it  in  its  amended 
form. 


70  MANUAL  OF  PARLIAMENTARY  PRACTICE. 

The  Order  and  Succession  of  Questions. 

It  is  a  general  rule,  that  when  a  proposition  is  regularly  before  a  de- 
liberative assembly,  for  its  consideration,  no  other  proposition  or  motion 
can  regularly  be  made  or  arise  so  as  to  take  the  place  of  the  former,  and 
be  first  acted  upon,  unless  it  be  either,  first,  a  privileged  question;  sec- 
ondly, a  subsidiary  question;  or,  thirdly,  an  incidental  question  or  mo- 
tion. 

All  these  motions  take  the  place  of  the  principal  motion,  or  main  question 
as  it  is  usually  called,  and  are  to  be  first  put  to  the  question;  and  among 
themselves  also,  there  are  some  which,  in  like  manner,  take  the  place  of 
all  the  others.  Some  of  these  qiiestions  merely  supersede  the  principal 
question,  until  they  have  been  decided,  and  when  decided,  whether  aiJir- 
matively  or  negatively,  leave  that  question  as  before.  Others  of  them  al- 
so supersede  the  principal  question  until  they  are  decided;  and,  when 
decided  one  way,  dispose  of  the  principal  question,  but,  if  decided  the 
other  way,  leave  it  as  before. 

Privilegfed  Questions. 

There  are  certain  motions  or  questions  which,  on  account  of  their  sup- 
erior importance  attributed  to  them,  either  in  consequence  of  a  vote  of 
the  assembly,  or  in  themselves  considered,  or  of  the  necessity  of  the  pro- 
ceedings to  which  they  lead,  are  entitled  to  take  the  place  of  any  other 
subject  or  proposition  which  may  then  be  under  consideration,  and  to  be 
first  acted  upon  and  decided  by  the  assembly.  These  are  called  privil- 
eged questions,  because  they  are  entitled  to  precedence  over  other  ques- 
tions though  they  are  of  different  degrees  among  themselves.  Questions 
of  this  nature  of  three  kinds:  namely,  first,  motions  to  adjourn;  secondly, 
motions  or  questions  relating  to  the  rights  and  privileges  of  the  assembly, 
or  of  its  members  individually;  and  thirdly,  motions  for  the  orders  of 
the  day. 

Adjoomment. 

A  motion  to  adjourn  takes  the  place  of  all  other  questions  whatsoever; 
for  otherwise  the  assembly  might  be  kept  sitting  against  its  will;  and 
for  an  indefinate  time;  but,  in  order  to  entitle  this  motion  to  precedence, 
it  must  be  simply  to  "adjourn." 

The  reason  why  a  motion  to  adjourn  moved  for  the  purpose  of  supersed- 
ing or  suppressing  a  pending  question,  is  not  susceptible  of  amendment, 
is,  that  if  amended,  it  woiild  at  once  become  inadmissable,  in  point  of 
order,  on  the  ground  of  its  being  introductory  to  a  second  question,  hav- 
ing no  privilege  to  take  the  place  of  a  question  already  pending,  and  en- 
titled to  be  first  disposed  of. 

Questions  of  Privilege. 

The  questions  next  in  relative  importance,  and  which  supersede  all 
others  for  the  time  being,  except  that  of  adjournment,  are  those  which 
concern  the  rights  and  privileges  of  the  assembly  or  of  its  individual 
members. 

When  settled,  the  question  interrupted  by  it  is  to  be  resumed  at  the 
point  where  it  was  suspended. 

Orders  of  the  Day. 

When  a  consideration  of  a  subject  has  been  assigned  for  a  particular 
day,  by  an  order  of  the  assembly,  the  matter  so  assigned  is  called  the 
order  of  the  day  for  that  day. 

A  question  which  is  thus  made  the  subject  of  an  order  for  its  consi<ierfr 


MANUAL  OF  PARLIAMENTARY  PRACTICE.  71 

tion  on  a  particular  day  is  thereby  made  a  privileged  question  for  that 
day. 

Orders  of  the  day,  unless  proceeded  in  and  disposed  of  on  the  day 
assigned,  fall,  of  course,  and  must  be  renewed  for  some  other  day. 
Questions  of  Order. 

It  is  the  duty  of  the  presiding  officer  of  a  deliberative  assembly,  to  en- 
force the  rules  and  orders  of  the  body  over  which  he  presides,  in  all  its 
proceedings;  and  this  without  question,  debate  or  delay,  in  all  cases  in 
which  the  breach  or  order,  or  the  departure  from  rule,  is  manifest.  It  is 
also  the  right  of  every  member,  taking  notice  of  the  breach  of  a  rule,  to 
insist  upon  the  enforcement  of  it  in  the  same  manner. 

When  any  question  of  this  nature  arises  in  the  course  of  any  other  pro- 
ceeding, it  necessarily  supersedes  the  further  consideration  of  the  sub- 
ject out  of  which  it  arises,  until  that  question  is  disposed  of;  then  the 
original  motion  or  proceeding  revives,  and  resumes  its  former  position, 
unless  it  has  been  itself  disposed  of  by  the  question  of  order. 

When  a  question  of  order  is  raised,  as  it  may  be  by  any  one  member,  it 
is  decided  by  the  presiding  officer.  If  the  decision  of  the  presiding 
officer  is  not  satisfactory,  any  one  member  may  object  to  it,  and  have 
the  question  decided  by  the  assembly,  this  is  called  appealing  from  the 
decision  of  the  chair. 

Withdrawal  of  a  Motion. 

A  motion  when  made,  seconded  and  stated,  cannot  be  withdrawn  with- 
out the  general  consent,  or,  if  put  formally  to  the  question,  the  unani- 
mous vote  of  the  assembly. 

If  this  motion  is  decided  in  the   affirmative,  the  motion  to  which  it  re- 
lates is  thereby  removed  from  before  the  assembly,  as  if   it  had  never 
been  moved;  if  in  the  negative,  the  business  proceeds  as  before. 
Suspension  of  a  Bule. 

It  is  usual  in  the  code  of  rules  adopted  by  deliberative  assemblies,  and 
especially  legislative  bodies,  to  provide  that  a  certain  number  exceeding 
a  majority,  as  two-thirds  or  three-fourths,  shall  be  competent  to  the 
suspension  of  a  rule  in  a  particular  case;  where  this  is  not  provided, 
there  seems  to  be  no  other  mode  of  suspending  or  dispensing  with  a  rule 
than  by  general  consent. 

Amendment  of  Amendments. 

It  is  allowable  to  amend  a  proposed  amendment,  and  that  the  question 
or  such  sub-amendments  must  necessarily  be  put  and  decided  before 
putting  the  question  on  the  amendment. 

Subsidiary  Question  L.ie  on  the  Table. 

This  motion  takes  precedence  of  and   superceeds  all   the   other  sub- 
sidiary motions.     If  decided  in  the  affirmative,   the   principal  motion, 
together  with  all  the  other  motions,  subsidiary  and  incidental,  connected 
with  it,  is  removed  from  before  the  assembly,  until  it  is  again  taken  up. 
Previous  Questions. 

li  first  moved,  is  not  subject  to  be  superseded  by  a  motion  to  postpone, 
commit,  or  amend. 

If  the  previous  question  is  moved  before  the  others  above  mentioned, 
and  put  to  the  question,  it  has  the  effect  to  prevent  those  motions  from 
being  made  at  all. 


72  MANUAL  OF  PARLIAMENTARY  PRACTICE. 


Postponement. 

The  motion  to  postpone  is  either  indefinite  or  to  a  day  certain,  and,  in 
both  these  forms,  mav  be  amended. 

This  motion  stands  in  the  same  degree  with  motions  for  the  previous 
question,  to  commit,  and  to  amend  and  if  first  made,  is  not  susceptible ol 
being  superseded  by  them. 

Commitment. 

May  be  amended  by  the  substitution  of  one  kind  of  committee  for 
another,  or  by  enlarging  or  diminishing  the  number  of  the  members  of 
the  committee  as  originally  proposed,  or  by  instructions  to  the  committee. 

This  motion  stands  in  the  same  degree  with  the  previous  questions,  and 
postponement,  and,  if  first  made  is  not  superseded  by  them. 
Amendment. 

A  motion  to  amend,  as  has  been  seen,  may  be  itself  amended.  It  stands 
in  the  same  degree  only  with  the  previous  question  and  indefinite  post- 
ponement; and  neither,  if  first  moved,  is  superseded  by  the  other. 

But  this  motion  is  liable  to  be  superseded  by  a  motion  to  postpone  to  a 
day  certain;  so  that,  amendment  and  postponement  competing,  the  lat- 
ter is  to  be  first  put. 

A  motion  to  amend  may  also  be  superseded  by  a  motion  to  commit. 
Of  the  Order  of  Proceeding. 

In  considering  and  amending  any  paper  which  consists  of  several  dis- 
tinct propositions  begin  at  the  beginning  and  proceed  through  it  by  para- 
graphs. 

To  this  natural  order  of  beginning  at  the  beginning,  there  is  one  ex- 
ception according  to  parliamentary  usage,  where  a  resolution  or  series  of 
resolutions,  or  other  paper,  has  a  preamble  or  title;  in  which  case,  the 
preamble  or  title  is  postponed  until  the  residue  of  the  paper  is  gone 
through  with. 

When  a  paper  has  been  referred  to  committee,  and  reported  back  to  the 
assembly,  is  taken  up  for  consideration,  the  amendments  only  are  first 
read,  in  course,  by  the  clerk.  When  the  amendments  reported  by  the 
committee  have  been  thus  disposed  of,  the  presiding  officer  pauses,  and 
gives  time  for  amendments  to  be  proposed  in  the  assembly;  when  through 
the  whole,  he  puts  the  question  on  agreeing  to  or  adopting  the  paper. 

When  the  paper  referred  to  a  committee  is  reported  back,  as  amended, 
in  a  new  draft,  the  new  draft  is  to  be  considered  as  a  substitute  for  the 
original  paper,  and  then  to  treat  it  as  such. 

The  regular  course  of  proceeding  requires  the  motion  to  lie  on  the  table, 
to  be  first  put;  if  this  is  negatived,  the  question  of  privilege  is  then  set- 
tled; after  that  comes  the  question  of  order;  then  the  question  of  com- 
mitment; if  this  is  negatived  the  question  of  amendment  is  taken;  and, 
lastly  the  main  question. 

When  a  member  has  obtained  the  floor,  he  cannot  be  cut  off  from  ad- 
dressing the  assembly  on  the  one  qnestion  before  it;  nor,  when  speaking, 
can  he  be  interrupted  in  his  speech  by  any  other  member  rising,  and 
moving  an  adjournment,  or  for  the  orders  of  the  day,  or  by  making,  any 
other  privileged  motion  of  the  same  kind,  a  member  in  possession  of  the 
floor,  or  proceeding  with  his  speech,  cannot  betaken  down  or  interrupted 
but  by  a  call  to  order ;  and  the  qnestion  of  order  being  decided,  he  is 
still  to  be  heard  through. 

When,  therefore,  a  member  rises  whilst  another  is  speaking,  and  ad- 


MANUAL  OF  PARLIAMENTARY  PRACTICE.  73 

dresses  the  chair,  he  should  inform  the  presiding  officer  that  he  rises  to 
a  point  of  order,  or  the  orders  of  the  assembly,  or  to  a  matter  of  privilege. 
It  will  then  be  the  duty  of  the  presiding  officer  to  direct  the  member 
speaking  to  suspend  his  remarks  or  to  resume  his  seat,  and  the  member 
rising,  to  proceed  with  the  statement  of  his  point  or  other  matter  of 
orderer  of  privilege.  If  the  latter,  on  proceeding,  discloses  matter  which 
shows  that  the  interruption  was  proper,  the  subject  so  introduced  must 
first  be  disposed  of;  and  then  the  member  who  was  interrupted  is  to  be 
directed  to  proceed  with  his  speech.  If  it  appears  that  there  was  no  suffi- 
cient ground  for  the  interruption,  the  member  rising  is  to  be  directed  to 
resume  his  seat;  and  the  member  interrupted,  to  proceed  with  his  speech. 

OF  ORDER  IN  DEBATE. 

As  to  the  Manner  of  Speaking^. 

When  a  member  desires  to  address  the  assembly  on  any  subject  before 
it  (as  well  as  to  make  a  motion),  he  is  to  rise  and  stand  up  in  his  place, 
uncovered,  and  to  address  himself  not  to  the  assembly  or  any  particular 
member,  but  to  the  presiding  officer. 

No  person,  in  speaking,  is  to  mention  a  member  then  present  by  his 
name,  but  to  describe  him  by  his  seat  in  the  assembly,  or  as  the  member 
who  spoke  last,  or  last  but  one,  or  on  the  other  side  of  the  question,  or 
by  some  other  equivalent  expression. 

As  to  Time  of  Speaking. 

No  member  can  speak  more  than  once  to  the  same  question ;  but  he 
may  speak  to  the  same  subject  as  often  as  it  is  presented  in  the  form  of  a 
ditt'erent  question. 

A  member  may  also  be  permitted  to  speak  a  second  time  in  the  same 
debate,  in  order  to  clear  a  matter  of  fact,  or  merely  to  explain  himself  iu 
some  material  part  of  his  speech. 

It  is  sometimes  supposed,  that,  because  a  member  has  a  right  to  ex- 
plain himself,  he  therefore  has  a  right  to  interrupt  another  member 
while  speaking,  in  order  to  make  the  explanation;  but  this  is  a  mistake: 
he  should  wait  until  the  member  speaking  has  finished;  and  if  a  mem- 
ber, on  being  requested,  yields  the  floor  for  an  explanation,  he  relin- 
quishes it  altogether. 

As  to  Stopping  Debate. 

The  only  mode  in  use  in  this  country,  until  recently,  for  the  purpose 
of  putting  an  end  to  an  unprofitable  or  tiresome  debate,  was  by 
moving  the  previous  question 

The  other  mode  of  putting  an  end  to  debate  is  for  the  assembly  to 
adopt  beforehand  a  special  order  in  reference  to  a  particular  subject, 
that,  at  such  a  time  specified,  all  debate  upon  it  shall  cease,  and  all 
motions  or  questions  pending  in  relation  to  it  shall  be  decided. 

Another  rule  which  has  lately  been  introduced  for  the  purpose  of 
shortening  rather  than  stopping  debate  is,  that  no  member  shall  be 
permitted  to  speak  more  than  a  certain  specified  time  on  any  question. 

OF  THE  QUESTION. 

When  any  proposition  is  made  to  a  deliberative  assembly,  it  is  called 
"a  motion,"  when  it  is  stated  or  propounded  to  the  assembly  for  their  ac- 
ceptance or  rejection,  it  is  denominated  "a  question,"  and,  when  adopted, 
it  becomes  "the  order,"  "resolution,"  "or  vote,"  of  the  assembly. 


74  MANUAL  OF  PARLIAMENTARY  PRACTICE. 

OF  RECONSIDERATION. 

It  is  a  principal  of  parliamentary  law,  upon  which  many  of  the  rules 
and  proceedings  previously  stated  are  founded,  that  when  a  question 
has  heen  once  put  to  a  deliberative  assembly,  and  decided  whether  affir- 
mative or  negative,  that  decision  is  the  judgment  of  the  assembly  and 
cannot  be  again  brought  into  question. 

It  has  now  come  to  be  a  common  practice  in  all  deliberative  assemblies 
and  may  consequently  be  considered  as  a  principal  of  the  common  parlia- 
mentary law  of  this  country,  to  reconsider  a  vote  already  passed,  whethe 
affirmatively  or  negatively. 

It  is  usual  in  legislative  bodies,  to  regulate  by  a  special  rule  the  time 
manner,  and  by  whom,  a  motion  to  reconsider  may  be  made,  but  where 
there  is  no  special  rule  on  the  subject,  a  motion  to  reconsider  must  be 
considered  in  the  same  light  as  any  other  motion  and  as  subject  to  no 
other  rules.  On  the  motion  to  reconsider,  the  whole  subject  is  as  much 
open  for  debate  as  if  it  had  not  been  discussed  at  all;  and,  if  the  motion 
prevails,  the  subject  is  again  open  for  debate  on  the  original  motion,  in 
the  same  manner  as  if  that  motion  had  never  been  put  to  the  question. 

COMMITTEE  OF  THE  WHOUE. 

The  proceedings  in  a  committee  of  the  whole,  though  in  general  simi- 
lar to  those  in  the  assembly  itself  and  in  other  committees  are  yet  differ- 
ent in  some  respect,  the  principal  of  which  are  the  following: 

First,  The  previous  question  cannot  be  moved  in  a  committee  of  the 
whole.  The  only  means  of  avoiding  an  improper  discussion  is,  to  move 
that  the  committee  rise. 

Second,  A  committee  of  the  whole  cannot  adjourn  to  some  other  time 
or  place,  for  the  purpose  of  going  on  with  and  completing  the  considera- 
tion of  the  subject  referred  to  them;  but,  if  their  business  is  unfinished  at 
the  usual  time  for  the  assembly  to  adjourn,  or  for  any  other  reason  they 
wish  to  proceed  no  further  at  a  particular  time,  the  form  of  proceeding  is, 
for  some  member  to  move  that  the  committee  rise,  report  progress  and 
ask  leave  to  sit  again. 

Third,  In  a  committee  of  the  whole,  every  member  may  speak  as  often 
as  he  pleases,  provided  he  can  obtain  the  floor. 

Fourth,  A  committee  of  the  whole,  cannot  refer  any  matter  to  another 
committee. 

Fifth,  In  a  committee  of  the  whole,  the  preciding  officer  of  the  assem- 
bly has  a  right  to  take  a  part  in  the  debate  and  proceedings  In  the  same 
manner  as  any  other  member. 

Sixth,  A  committee  of  the  whole,  like  a  select  committee,  has  no  author- 
ity to  punish  a  breach  of  order,  whether  of  a  member  or  stranger;  but 
can  only  rise  and  report  the  matter  to  the  assembly. 

A  Bjll  Having  Been  Read  the  Third  Time   may  be  Recommitted 
for  Some  Special  Purpose. 

After  a  bill  has  been  ordered  to  be  read  a  third  time,  or  has  been  read  a 
third  time  it  is  then  to  late  to  recommit  it  generally,  but  it  may  then, 
nevertheless,  be  recommitted  for  some  special  purpose,  as  to  receive 
some  particular  clause  or  proviso,  or  for  the  purpose  o  /  emg  divided  into 
two  bills.  When  a  bill  after  being  thus  recommitted  is  reported  to  the 
house  and  again  taken  up  for  consideration,  it  is  resumed  at  the  point  at 
which  the  proceedings  upon  it  where  interrupted  by  the  recommitment. 


MANUAL  OP  PARLIAMENTARY  PRACTIOB.  75 


CONCI^UDING  REMARKS. 

A  presiding  officer  will  often  find  himself  embarrassed  by  the  difficulty, 
as  well  as  the  delicacy,  of  deciding  points  of  order,  or  giving  directions 
as  be  the  manner  of  proceeding.  In  such  cases  it  will  be  useful  for  Mm 
to  recollect  that— 

"The  GREAT  PURPOSE  OF  ALL  RULES  AND  FORMS  IS  TO  SUBSERVE  THE  WILL 
OF  THE  ASSEMBLY,  RATHER  THAN  TO  RESTRAIN  IT;  TO  FACILITATE,  AND  NOT 
TO  OBSTRUCT,  THE  EXPRESSION  OF  THEIR  DELIBERATE   SEN^E." 


76  A.  CHAPTER  ON  LEGISLATIVE  PEACTICE. 


A  CHAPTER  ON  LEGISLATIVE  PRACTICE. 

ORGANIZATION  OF  THE  LEGISLATUBE. 

Temporary  Organization. 

The  Legislature  convenes  at  12  o'clock  m.,  on  the  first  Tuesday  in  Jan- 
jary,  biennally. 

At  the  hour  appointed  the  secretary   of  the   state  calls  the  house  of 
representatives  to  order,  and  the  lieutenant-governor  the  senate. 
Cleric    Protem. 

It  has  of  late  years  become  the  custom  for  the  secretary  of  state  to 
select  some  one  to  act  as  clerk  pro  tern,  formerly  on  motion  of  some 
person  claiming  to  be  elected,  a  clerk  pro  tern  was  selected,  and  the  roll 
of  members,  as  prepared  by  the  Secretary  of  State  from  the  official  re- 
turns, is  called  over  to  see  who  of  the  regularly  elected  members  of 
the  legislature  are  present  and  entitled  to  participate  in  the  organi- 
zation. After  this  roll  call  the  next  thing  in  order  is  the  election  of  a 
Speaker  Pro  Tern. 

As  soon  as  the  speaker  pro  tern  is  elected,  the  secretary  of  state  selects  a 
committee  of  two  members  to  conduct  the  speaker  pro  tern  to  the  chair. 
Chief  Clerk  Pro  Tern. 

The  next  thing  in  order  is  the  election  of  a  Chief  Clerk  pro  tern 
Committee  on  Credentials. 

Now  committee  of  five  on  credentials  should  be  appointed,  on  mo- 
tion of  some  member  whose  seat  is  not  contested,  and  the  speaker  pro 
tern,  should  select  for  such  committee  only  those  whose  right  to  act  is  un- 
questioned by  any  contest. 

The  Representatives  Districts  will  be  called  over  and  the  credentials 
should  be  handed  to  the  clerk  as  the  numbers  are  called. 
Recess. 

The  House  should  now  take  a  recess  long  enough  to  allow  the  com- 
mittee on  credentials  to  make  up  its  report. 

No  business  can  be  transacted  until  the  Legislature  is  organized,  there- 
fore the  committee  on  credentials  should  report  back  to  the  House  as 
soon  as  possible  the  names  of  all  who  are  entitled  to  seats,  as  all  con- 
tested cases  must  go  before  the  standing  committee  of  the  House  after 
it  is  permantly  organized. 

After  Recess. 

When  the  House  is  called  to  order  the  committee  on  credentials  makes 

a  report,  and  when  adopted,  a  committee  of  three  should   be  appointed 

to  wait  on  the  chief  justice  or  one  of  the  associate  judges  of  the  supreme 

court,  and  request  him  to  administer  the  oath  of  office  to  the  members 

elect. 

The  Oath  of  Office. 

The  following  oath  must  be  sworn  to  and  subscribed  by  each  member: 
••We  and  each  of  us  do  solemnly  swear  [or  affirm]  that  we  will  support 
the  constitution  of  the  United  States  and  the  constitution  of  the  state  of 
Nebraska,  and  vvill  faithfully  discharge  the  duties  of  members  of  the 
legislature  according  to  the  best  of  our  ability,  and  that  at  the  election 
at  which  we  were  chosen  to  fill  said  office,  we  have  not  improperly  influ- 


A  CHAPTER  ON  LEGISLATIVE  PRACTICE. 


enced  in  any  way  the  vote  of  any  elector,  and  have  not  accepted,  nor 
will  we  accept  or  receive,  directly  or  indirectly,  any  money  or  othei- 
valuable  thing  from  any  corporation,  company,  or  person  or  any  promise 
of  office  [for  any  vote  we  may  give  or  withhold  on  any  bill,  resjolution, 
or  appropriation.]" 

The  house  is  now  ready  for 

Permanent  Org:anization. 

A  motion  should  now  be  made  "to  proceed  to  a  permanent  organiza- 
tion." which  being  agreed  to,  nominations  will  be  in  order  for  speaker. 

The  roll  will  be  called  by  the  clerk,  and  each  member  will  announce 
his  choice  for  speaker.  A  majority  of  all  the  votes  cast  is  necessary  for  a 
choice.  Upon  the  election  of  a  speaker,  a  committee  of  two  should  be 
appointed  to  escort  him  to  the  chair. 

Upon  taking  the  chair,  the  speaker-elect  usually  delivers  a  short 
address. 

Other  Officers  Elected. 

The  following  officers  should  then  be  elected : 

Chief  clerk,  assistant  clerks,  sergeant-at-arms,  door-keeper,  enrolling 
clerk,  engrossing  clerk,  and  chaplain. 

Other  officers  and  employes,  as  may  be  deemed  necessary  for  the  proper 
transaction  of  business,  may  then  be  elected  or  appointed  by  resolution. 
[See  page  56,  Sec.  2118.] 

The  speaker  has  no  authority  to  appoint  officers  or  employes,  except  a 
resolution  of  the  house  give  him  that  authority. 

Oath  of  Office  for  Officers. 

All  officers  elected  or  appointed  must  take  and  subscribe  the  following 
oath: 

"We,  and  each  of  us,  do  solemnly  swear  that  we  will  support  the  con- 
stitution of  the  United  States,  and  the  constitution  of  the  state  of  Ne- 
braska, and  faithfully  discharge  the  duties  of  our  respective  offices.  So 
help  us  God." 

Organization  of  the  Senate. 

The  organization  of  the  senate  proceeds  in  like  manner,  except  it  is 
called  to  order  by  the  lieutenant-governor,  voting  only  when  the  senate 
is  equally  divided.  [Const.,  Sec.  17,  Art.  V.]  A  president  of  the  senate  is, 
however,  chosen,  who  presides  over  the  senate  when  the  lieutenant-gov- 
ernor shall  not  attend  or  shall  act  as  governor.    [Const.,  Sec.  7,  Art.  III.] 

The  sen  ate  also  elects  a  secretary,  assistant  secretary,  sergeant-at-arms, 
door-keeper,  enrolling  clerk,  engrossing  clerk,  chaplain,  and  such  other 
officers  and  employes  as  may  be  elected  or  appointed  by  resolution  of  the 
senate.    (See  page  55,  Sec.  2117.) 

PERMANENT  ORGANIZATION  OF  BOTH  HOUSES. 

As  soon  as  a  permanent  organization  is  effected,  a  committee  of  three  is 
then  appointed  to  wait  upon  the. senate  and  inform  it  that  the  house  is 
organized  and  ready  for  business. 

As  soon  as  the  senate  and  house  are  organized,  a  joint  committee  of 
both  houses,  consisting  of  two  senators  and  three  representatives ,  is  ap- 
pointed to  wait  on  the  governor  and  inform  him  that  the  legislature  is 
organized  and  in  readiness  to  receive  any  communication  from  him. 

FIRST  BUSINESS. 

The  first  business  of  the  legislature  is  to  meet  in  joint  convention  and 
canvass  the  vote  for  state  officers.    (Con.,  Sec.  4,  Art.  5.  See  page  35.)    This 


?8  A  CttAt»TER  ON  LEGISLATIVE  PftACf  ICES. 

is  usually  done  on  the  second  day  of  the  session,and  on  the  third  day  the 
officers  elect  are  brought  before  the  bar  of  the  house  and  the  oath  of  office 
adipjnistered  to  them  in  the  presence  of  both  houses  assembled  in  joint 
ojft  mention.  It  is  customary  for  the  newly  elected  governor  to  deliver 
his  inaugural  message  at  this  time. 

GOVERNOR'S    MESSAGE. 

The  senate  and  house  have  usually  assembled  in  joint  convention,  in 
the  representative  chamber,  upon  some  day  and  hour  suggested  by  the 
governor  during  the  first  week  of  the  session,  generally  on  the  afternoon 
of  the  second  day,  to  hear  his  annual  message. 

At  the  first  opportunity  after  hearing  the  message  read,  the  various  rec- 
ommendations therein  contained  should  be  referred  by  resolution  to  ap- 
propriate standing  committees. 

STANDING  COMMITTEES. 

The  standing  committees  are  appointed  by  the  speaker  at  as  early  a  day 
in  the  session  as  possible,  in  accordance  with  rules  of  the  house.  In  the 
senate  no  uniform  custom  of  appointing  committees  exists.  In  1877,  1883, 
1891  and  1893  the  committees  were  appointed  by  the  senate.  In  1879  and 
1881  they  were  appointed  by  the  lieutenant  governor. 

RULES. 

A  committee  on  rules  should  be  appointed  early  in  the  session,  and' 
pending  its  report  it  has  been  customary  to  adopt  the  rules  of  the  pre- 
ceding legislature. 

SEATS. 

Seats  in  the  house  have  generally  been  selected  by  members  in  advance 
of  the  session. 

STATIONERY. 

It  has  been  the  custom  to  furnish  every  member  with  the  necessary 
stationery  required  in  his  official  capacity,  which  will  be  issued  by  the  • 
direction  of  the  chief  clerk  as  needed. 

MAIL  FACILITIES. 

The  legislative  maJl  will  be  taken  from  the  U.  S.  post-office  to  the  capitol 
building  as  soon  as  distributed,  and  will  be  opened  by  the  post-master  of  i 
the  house  immediately. 

All  mail  matter  deposited  with  the  post-master  at  the  capitol  will  be 
taken  to  the  U.  S.  post-office  in  time  to  make  connections  with  the  regu- ' 
Iftr  mail  trains  leaving  Lincoln. 

Of  Letters,  Petitions,  Memorials,  etc. 

II  a  letter,  petition,  bill,  memorial  or  remonstrance  be  sent  to  a  mem- 
ber to  be  by  him  presented  to  the  house  or  senate,  his  first  duty  is  to  fold 
it  in  a  neat  form  and  endorse  on  the  back  of  it,  in  brief,  the  subject  on 
which  it  treats,  and  immediately  below  this  he  signes  his  name  and 
county.  For  example,  a  member  has  a  petition  for  the  passage  of  a  bill, 
etc.,  he  endorses  it  in  this  way. 

"A  petition  signed  by  100  citizens  of  Phelps  county  praying  for  the 
passage  of  House  Roll  No.  33."  E.  Soderman,  of  Phelps  county. 

In  presenting  it,  the  member  rises  in  his  place,  when  the  order  of  "pe- 
tetions  and  memorials"  is  reached  and  says: 

"Mr.  Speaker  (or  Mr.  President)  I  present  the  petition  of  the  citizens  of 

praying,  etc."    He  then  hands  it  to  one  of  the  pages,  to  be 

handed  to  the  chief  clerk,  who  also  reads  the  indorsement,  by  way  of  in- 
formation to  the  liouse  or  senate,  after  which  the  speaker  refers  it  to  the 
appropriate  com niittee.  The  same  course  is  pursued  in  regard  to  mem- 
orials and  remonstrances. 


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Of  Resolutions. 

The  parliamentary  meaning  of  "resolution"  is  the  expression  of  the 
will  or  sympathy  of  the  house  in  regard  to  any  subject  before  it,  public 
or  private,  as  for  example,  that  the  use  of  the  hall  be  granted  for  a  parti- 
cular purpose;  that  certain  companies  be  required  to  furnish  statements, 
etc.,  that  the  house  extends  its  sympathy  to  the  Typographical  Union, 
etc.  If  information  is  desired  from  any  of  the  departments,  or  from  the 
executive,  the  resolution  assumes  the  form  of  a  req^^e^•t  as  for  example: 

Resolved,  "That  the  auditor  be  requested  to  furnish  the  house  with  a 
statement,"  etc. 

When  a  member  is  desirous  of  bringing  before  the  house  any  proposition 
for  its  determination,  he  writes  it  out  in  the  form  of  a  resolution,  in  a 
plain,  legible  hand,  and  as  soon  as  the  speaker  announces  the  order  of 
"Resolutions"  he  rises  in  his  place  and  says: 

"Mr.  Speaker  (or  president),  I  offer  the  following  resolution  and  move 
its  adoption."  He  then  delivers  it  to  one  of  the  pages,  to  be  handed  to 
the  chief  clerk.  The  speaker  then  directs  the  clerk  to  read  the  resolution, 
which  is  then  put  to  the  house  for  its  adoption  or  rejection. 

Joint  resolutions,  being  in  the  nature  of  bills,  cannot  be  submitted  to 
the  house  under  the  order  of  "resolutions."  The  proper  time  to  offer 
them  is  under  the  order  of  "Introduction  of  bills." 

Concurrent  resolutions  are  those  on  which  action  of  both  Senate  and 
House  are  required,  and  are  treated,  in  each  house,  the  same  as  resolu- 
tions. 

Of  Bills. 

Too  much  care  in  the  preparation  and  passage  of  bills  cannot  be  taken. 
The  decisions  of  our  courts  whereby  laws  are.held  unconstitutionl  merely 
on  account  of  some  slight  defect  in  title  or  want  of  proper  observance 
of  constitutional  requirements  in  their  passage,  are  growing  in  frequency. 
Our  present  constitution  throws  numerous  safe-guards  around  the 
passage  of  bills  with  a  view  of  preventing  hasty  and  improvident 
legislation.    See  Const.  Art.  III.  See's.  9, 10,  11. 

All  bills  should  be  written  in  black  ink  on  legal  cap  paper,  or  type- 
written; folded  up  in  neat  form  and  the  title  of  the  bill  endorsed  on  the 
upper  end  of  the  back  of  it  and  the  member  sign  his  name  and  the 
county  immediately  tinder  the  title  in  this  way : 

House  Boll  No.  33. 

A  bill  for  an  act  to  regulate  railroads,  to  classify  freights  etc. 

By  Fkki>  Newberry, 
Hamilton  Co. 
When  the  order  of  introduction  of  bills  "is  reached,  the  member  rises 
in  his  place  and  saj's:  "Mr.  Speaker,  I  ask  leave  to  introduce  a  bill," 
when  he  hands  it  over  to  one  of  the  pages  to  be  handed  to  the  Chief 
Clerk,  when  it  is  read  the  first  time  and  ordered  to  a  second  reading. 
On  the  next  or  a  subsequent  day,  when  the  order  of  "bills  on  the  second 
reading,"  is  reached  the  bill  is  read  the  second  time,  ordered  to  be 
printed,  and  referred  to  a  committee. 

Action  of  Committees. 
When  a  committee,  to  whom  has  been  referred  a  bill  for  their  consider- 
ation, make  amendments  to  it,  they  should  be  careful  to  make  them  in 
such  a  way  as  to  be  readily  comprehended  by  the  clerks.    But  no  part  of 


A  CHAPTEB  ON  LEGISLATIVE  PKACTICE. 


any  bill  should  be  mutilated,  nor  any  interlineations  made,  and  no 
amendments  made  in  pencil  should  be  entertained.  They  should  be 
written  plainly  and  pinned  to  the  bill.  The  Chief  Clerk  furnishes 
proper  blanks  upon  which  to  make  the  reports  to  the  House. 

Reports  of    Committees. 

A  bill  reported  from  a  committee  should  be  accompanied  by  a  written 
report  and  whether  "with  amendments,"  or  "without  amendments."  If 
reported  favorably  and  concurred  in  by  the  House  the  bill  goes  on  "gen- 
eral File." 

COMMITTEE  OF  THE  WHOLE. 

The  committee  of  the  whole  is  an  expedient  to  simplify  the  business  of 
legislative  bodies.  No  record  is  made  of  its  proceedings,  and  it  has  no 
officer  except  of  its  own  creation  for  temporary  purposes.  It  is  liable  to 
instant  dissolution  in  case  of  disorder  when  the  speaker  takes  the  chair 
to  suppress  it;  in  ease  of  lack  of  quorum  when  the  speaker  takes  the  chair 
for  a  call  of  the  house  or  an  adjournment,  and  in  case  of  a  message  from 
the  senate  or  governor  when  the  speaker  takes  the  chair  to  receive  it. 

Either  house  may  resolve  itselfs  into  a  committee  of  the  whole  on  some 
particular  bill,  resolution,  or  subject;  or  it  may  go  into  committee  of  the 
whole  upon  the  general  file  of  bills.    In  the  first  case  the  motion  is, 

"That  the  house  do  now  resolve  itself  fnto  a  committee  of  the  whole 

upon  [bill  No ,  a  bill — ],  or  [joint  resolution  No ,  providing,  etc,], 

or  [upon  all  bills  relating  to ,  as  the  case  may  be." 

In  the  second  case  it  is, 

"That  the  house  do  resolve  itself  into  a  committee  of  the  whole  upon 
the  general  file  of  bills." 

Bills,  resolutions,  and  general  matters  which  have  been  once  con- 
sidered in  committee  of  the  whole,  in  which  progress  has  been  made  and 
leave  granted  for  further  consideration,  have  the  preference.  The 
motion  of  the  committee  of  the  whole  for  their  further  consideration, 
must  be  made  under  the  head  of  "bi^ls  in  which  the  committee  of  the 
whole  made  progress  and  obtained  leave  to  sit  again;"  and  in  which  case 
the  member  who  presided  when  the  same  matter  was  previously  con- 
sidered in  committee  of  the  whole,  resumes  the  chair,  unless  the  speaker 
name  a  different  member. 

The  motion  of  the  committee  of  the  whole  upon  the  general  file  must 
be  made  under  the  order  of  "bills  not  yet  considered  in  committee  of  the 
whole." 

When  the  house  resolves  itself  into  committee  of  the  whole  the 
speaker  selects  a  chairman,  as  follows: 

"The  gentleman  from ,  Mr ,  will  take  the  chair." 

The  appointed  chairman  advances  to  the  speaker's  desk,  and,  having 
taken  the  chair,  receives  from  the  clerk  the  papers  indicated  by  the 
motion  for  the  committee,  when  the  chairman  announces: 

"Gentlemen:— The  committee  have  under  consideration  bill  No 

entitled— (reading  the  title  from  the  back  of  the  bill),  or  (in  case  of  con- 
sideration of  the  general  file)  the  committee  have  under  consideration 
the  general  file  of  bills;  the  first  in  order  is  bill  No ,entitled 

The  clerk  will  read  the  first  section. 

The  section  read,  the  chairman  asks: 

"Are  there  any  amendments  proposed  to  the  first  section?  If  none,  and 
uo  objections  heard  the  section  will  be  considered  approved." 


A  CHAPTER  ON  LKGISLATIVB  PRACTICE.  81 

This  process  is  continued  through  the  whole  bill,  when  at  the  close  of 
the  reading  the  chairman  says: 

"The th  section  and  the  whole  bill  have  now  been  read,  andareopen 

to  amendments." 

At  this  point,  after  the  friends  of  the  bill  have  perfected  it,  it  is  custom- 
ary for  the  opponents  of  the  bill  to  open  their  attack. 

After  the  discussion  of  the  bill  to  such  an  extent  as  may  be  desired,  if 
no  amendments  are  made,  the  final  vote  is  generally  upon  a  motion: 

"That  the  bill  be  reported  back  to  the  house  without  amendment." 

If  any  other  bills  are  before  the  committee,  they  are  proceeded  with  in 
the  same  manner. 

If  it  is  desired  to  have  a  further  consideration  of  any  matter  before  the 
committee,  or  if  the  general  file  has  not  been  gone  through  with,  the  mo- 
tion is, 

"That  the  committee  rise,  report  progress,  and  ask  leave  to  sit  again." 

If  the  committee  has  completed  its  duties,  the  motion  is, 

"That  the  committee  rise  and  report." 

Which  being  analagous  to  a  motion  to  adjourn,  is  not  debatable.  The 
chairman  states  the  matter  as  follows: 

"It  is  moved  that  the  committee  do  now  rise  and  report"  [or  otherwise  as 
the  case  may  be.] 

Is  the  committee  ready  for  the  question  ? 

"Gentlemen:— Those  who  are  of  the  opinion  that  this  committee  do  now 
arise  and  report  [or  as  the  case  may  6e],say  aye;  those  of  the  contrary  opin 
ion,  say  no." 

In  case  of  doubt,  a  division  must  be  had,  as  the  ayes  and  noes  cannot  be 
called  in  committee  of  the  whole. 

When  the  committee  rises,  the  speaker  resumes  his  seat,  and  the  chair- 
man, through  the  chief  clerk,  reports  as  follows: 
''Mr.  Speaker." 

"The  committee  of  the  whole  have  had  under  consideration  bill  No 

entitled ,  and  have  instructed  me  to  report  the  same  to  the  house 

with  amendments,"  [or  as  the  case  may  be]. 

When  the  general  file  has  been  under  consideration,  the  report  is  as 
follows : 

"The  committee  of  the  whole  have  had  under  consideration  the  general 
file  of  bills,  have  gone  through  the  same,  and  have  directed  me  to  report 
to  the  house  the  bills  contained  therein,  with  sundry  amendments  and 
recommendations,  as  follows,  to-wit:"  (Here  follow  the  title  of  bills  con 
sidered,  with  action  taken  upon  them.) 

In  case  the  file  has  been  left  untouched  the  report  is— 

"The  committee  of  the  whole  have  under  consideration  the  general  file 
of  bills,  and  have  made  some  progress  therein.  I  am  directed  to  report 
back  the  following  bills  with  the  amendments  and  recommendations 
hereinafter  specified,  and  ask  leave  for  the  committee  to  sit  again.  (Here 
foUoAvs  the  report  of  amendments,  etc.,  as  above.) 

On  the  latter  report  the  question  is— 

"Shall  leave  be  granted?" 

When,  upon  a  count,  it  is  ascertained  that  a  quorum  is  not  present,  the 
report  is— 

"The  committee  of  the  whole  have  had  under  consideration and 

after  some  progress  therein,  find  there  is  no  quorum  present:  that  fact  I 
herewith  report  to  you." 


A  CHAPTER  ON  LEGISLATIVK  PRACTICE. 


In  case  of  confusion  or  disorder,  the  speaker  of  his  own  accord  resumes 
the  chair  temporarily  and  without  any  formality,  for  the  purpose  of  sup- 
pressing it.  When  order  is  restored,  the  chairman  resumes  tlie  chair  and 
the  business  proceeds. 

Upon  the  coming  in  of  a  report,  the  recommendations  are  at  once  acted 
on  by  the  house. 

When,  in  committeeof  the  whole,  any  member  desires  to  offer  an  amend- 
ment, it  must  be  reduced  in  writing  and  sent  to  the  clerk,  who  reads 
it,  and  asks— 

"Is  the  committee  ready  for  the  question  upon  the  amendment?" 

And  if  no  further  amendment  or  debate,  he  puts  the  question  in  the 
usual  manner. 

After  a  section  is  once  passed,  with  an  unsuccessful  effort  to  amend  it, 
no  further  amendments  are  in  order.  The  strictness  of  this  rule,  is,  how- 
ever, not  always  adhered  to— fin  amendment  once  made,  may,  however, 
be  reconsidered.    Such  a  motion  is — 

"That  the  amendment  offered  by  the  gentleman  from to  the th 

section  be  reconsidered;" 

And  it  is  stated  as  follows: 

"The  gentleman  from moves  that  the  amendment  offered  by  the 

gentleman  from to  the th  second  be  reconsidered." 

"Is  the  committee  ready  for  the  question?" 

"Those  who  are  of  the  opinion  that  said  amendment  be  reconsidered, 
say  aye;  those  of  a  contrary  opinion,  say  no." 

In  case  the  amendment  is  reconsidered,  the  chairman  says: 

"The  motion  is  carried.  The  amendment  is  reconsidered.  The  ques- 
tion now  recurs  upon  the  adoption  of  the  amendment.  Is  the  committee 
ready  for  the  question?"  etc. 

Passage  of  Billg. 

When  the  order  of  business  entitled  "Bills  on  third  reading"  is  reached, 
at  the  conclusion  of  the  reading  of  each  bill,  the  speaker  says:  "This 
bill  has  been  read  at  large  on  three  seperate  days,  and  printed  with  all 
the  amendments  thereto.  Agreeably  to  the  constitution  the  yeas  and 
nays  will  be  taken  on  the  final  passage  of  the  bill." 
Upon  the  passage  of  a  bill  the  presiding  oflicer  reads  its  title  and  says: 
"The  bill  is  passed;  the  question  is  as  to  the  title.  Is  the  title  agreed 
to?"  The  title  is  generally  agreed  to,  though  it  may  be  changed  if  the 
house  so  order. 

Forms. 

The  following  forms  are  used  when  bills  have  become  laws,  as  pro- 
vided by  the  constitution  other  than  by  approval  of  the  executive. 

When  a  bill  has  not  been  returned  by  the  executive  within  five  days 
(Sundays  excepted)  after  it  has  been  presented  to  him  for  approval,  the 
following  certificate  is  attached,  signed,  and  sent  with  the  bill  to  the  sec- 
retary of  state. 

"We  hereby  certify  that  the  bill  (here  insert  title)  was  presented  to  the 

governor  on  the day  of a.d — ,  and  the  same  not  having 

been  returned  by  him  within  five  days  (Sundays  excepted)  after  such 
presentation,  it  has  become  a  law  agreeably  to  the  constitution  of  this 
stat^. 


a  chapter  on  legislative  practice.  88 

"Attest:. 

Lieutenant-Governor 

Secretary  of  the  Senate." 

" Speaker  of  the  House. 

Chief  Clerk  of  the  House." 
Or  in  ease  the  legislature,  by  their  adjournment,  prevent  the  return  of 
the  bill,  the  following  certificate  should  be  made: 
"We  hereby  certify  that  the  bill  (here  insert  title)  was  presented  to  the 

Governor  on  the day  of A.  d ,that  the  legislature  have 

this day  of adjourned,  and  that  said  bill  has  become  a  law 

agreeably  to  the  constitution  of  this  state  unless  the  Governor  shall,  with- 
in live  day&  after  such  adjournment,  tile  his  objections  thereto  in  the 
oflice  of  the  secretary  of  state. 

"Attest:  " 

" Lieutenant-Governor 

Secretary  of  the  Senate" 

" Speaker  of  the  House 

Chief  Clerk  of  the  House.". 
When  a  bill  has  been  passed  over  the  vote  of  the  governor  by  a  three- 
fifths  vote  of  all  the  members  elected  to  each  house,  the  certificates  at- 
tached are  as  follows: 

"We  hereby  certify  that  the  bill  entitled  (here  insert  title)  which  has 
been  disapproved  by  the  governor,  and  returned  with  his  objections  to 
the  senate  (or  house  of  representatives),  in  which  it  originated,  was  passed 

by  three-fifths  of  the  members  elected  to  the  senate  on  the day  of 

A.  D and  the  foregoing  is  the  act  so  passed  by  the  senate. 


Lieutenant  Governor. 


"Lincoln,  (date)."  Secretary  of  the  Senate. 

"We  hereby  certify  that  the  bill  entitled  (here  insert  title)  which  has 
been  disapproved  by  the  governor,  and  returned  with  his  objections  to 
the  house  of  representatives  (or  senate)  in  which  it  orginated,  was  passed 
by  three-fifths  of  all  the  members  elected  to  the  house  of  representatives 

on  the day  of a.  d ,  and  the  forgoing  is  the  act  so  passed 

by  the  house  of  representatives. 


Speaker  OF  the  House. 
Chief  Clerk  of  the  House 


STANDING  RULES  OF  THE    SENATE. 


STANDING  RULES  OF  THE  SENATE. 

Quorum  Necessary;  What  Constitutes. 

1.  The  President  having  taken  the  chair,  and  a  quorum  being  present 
the  journal  of  the  preceding  day  shall  be  read,  to  the  end  that  any  mis- 
take may  be  corrected  that  shall  be  made  in  the  entries.  A  quorum  shall 
consist  of  a  majority  of  the  members  of  the  senate. 

On  Decorum. 

2.  No  member  shall  speak  to  another,  or  otherwise  interrupt  the  busi- 
ness of  the  senate,  or  read  any  newspapers  while  the  journals  or  other 
public  papers  are  being  read,  or  when  any  member  is  speaking  in  any  de- 
bate. 

3.  Every  member  when  he  speaks  shall  address  the  president,  and 
shall  speak  standing  in  his  place,  and  when  he  has  finished  shall  sit  down. 

Restrictions  on  Debate. 

4.  No  member  shall  speak  more  than  twice  in  any  one  debate,  on  the 
same  day,  without  leave  of  the  senate. 

When  two  Members  Rise  at  the  Same  Time. 

5.  When  two  members  rise  at  the  same  time,  the  president  shall  name 
the  person  to  speak,  but  in  all  cases  the  member  who  shall  first  rise  and 
address  the  president  shall  be  entitled  to  the  floor. 

When  a  Member  is  Called  to  Order. 

6.  When  a  member  shall  be  called  to  order  by  the  president  or  a 
senator,  he  shall  sit  down;  and  every  question  of  order  shall  be  de- 
cided by  the  president,  without  debate,  subject  to  an  appeal  to  the  senate 

7.  If  a  member  be  called  to  order  for  words  spoken,  the  exceptional 
words  shall  be  immediately  taken  down  in  writing,  that  the  president 
may  be  better  enabled  to  judge  the  matter. 

On  Compelling  the  Attendance  of  Absentees. 

8.  No  member  shall  absent  himself  from  the  service  of  the  senate  with- 
out leave  of  the  senate  being  first  obtained.  And  in  case  a  less  number 
than  a  quorum  of  the  senate  shall  convene,  they  are  hereby  authorized 
to  send  the  sergeant-at-arms,  or  any  other  person  or  persons  by  them  au- 
thorized, for  any  or  all  absent  members,  as  a  majority  of  such  members 
present  shall  agree,  at  the  expense  of  such  absent  members  respectively, 
unless  such  excuse  for  non-attendance  shall  be  made  as  the  senate,  when 
a  quorum  is  convened,  shall  judge  sufficient;  and  that  case  the  expense 
shall  be  paid  out  of  the  contingent  fund. 

On  Motions. 

9.  No  motion  shall  be  debated  till  the  same  shall  be  seconded,  and  the 
question  stated  by  the  chair. 

10.  When  a  motion  shall  be  made  and  seconded,  it  shall  be  reduced 
to  writing,  if  desiried  by  the  president  or  any  member,  delivered  at  the 
table  and  read  before  the  same  shall  be  debated. 

On  Debate. 

11.  When  a  question  is  under  debate,  no  motion  shall  be  received  but 
to  adjourn,  for  the  previous  question,  to  lay  on  the  table,  to  postpone  in- 
definitely, to  postpone  to  a  certain  day,  to  commit  or  amend,  which 


STANDING  RULES  OP  THE  SENATE  85 

several  motions  shall  have  precedence  in  the  order  they  stand  arranged. 
Any  motion  may  be  withdrawn  by  the  mover  at  any  time  before  a  de- 
cision, amendments,  or  ordering  of  the  yeas  and  nays,  except  a  motion 
to  reconsider,  which  shall  not  be  withdrawn  without  leave  of  the  senate. 
A  motion  to  adjourn  shall  always  be  in  order,  that,  and  the  motion  to 
lay  on  the  table,  shall  be  decided  without  debate. 

12.  If  a  question  in  debate  contain  several  points,  any  member  may 
have  the  same  divided:  but  on  a  motion  to  strike  out  and  insert,  it 
shall  not  be  in  order  to  move  for  a  division  of  the  question ;  but  the  re- 
jection of  a  motion  to  strike  out  and  insert  one  proposition  shall  not  pre- 
vent a  motion  to  strike  out  and  insert  a  different  proposition ;  nor  pre- 
vent a  subsequent  motion  to  simply  strike  out:  nor  shall  the  rejection  of 
a  motion  simply  to  strike  out  prevent  a  subsequent  motion  to  strike  out 
and  insert. 

On  FUling  Blanks. 

13.  In  filling  up  blanks,  the  largest  sum  and  the  longest  time  shall  be 
first  put. 

Unfinished  Business. 

14.  The  unfinished  business  in  which  the  senate  was  engaged  at  the 
last  preceding  adjournment  shall  have  the  preference  in  the  special 
orders  of  the  day. 

The  Ayes  and  Nays. 

15.  When  the  ayes  and  nays  shall  be  called  for  by  two  of  the  members 
present,  each  member  called  upon  shall,  unless  for  the  special  reason  be 
excused  by  the  senate,  declare  openly  and  without  debate  his  assent  or 
dissent  to  the  question.  In  taking  the  ayes  and  nays,  and  upon  the  call 
of  the  house,  the  names  of  the  members  shall  be  taken  alphabetically. 

16.  When  the  ayes  and  nays,  shall  be  taken  on  any  question,  in  pursu- 
ance of  the  above  rule,  no  member  shall  be  permitted  to  vote  after  the 
decision  is  announced  from  the  chair. 

On  Secret  Sessions. 

17.  On  a  motion  made  and  seconded  to  shut  the  doors  of  the  Senate  on 
the  discussion  of  any  business  which  may,  in  the  opinion  of  a  member, 
require  the  secrecy,  the  president  shall  direct  the  senate  to  be  cleared  of 
all  persons,  as  provided  in  Rule  32,  and  during  the  discussion  of  such  mo- 
tion, the  doors  shall  remain  shut. 

18.  No  motion  shall  be  deemed  in  order  to  admit  any  person  or  persons 
whatsoever  within  the  doors  of  the  senate  chamber,  to  present  any  peti- 
tion, memorial,  or  address,  or  to  hear  any  such  read. 

On  Beconsideration. 

19.  When  a  question  has  been  once  made  and  carried  in  the  affirma- 
tive or  negative,  it  shall  be  in  order  for  any  member  of  the  majority  to 
move  for  the  reconsideration  thereof;  but  no  question  for  the  reconsider- 
ation of  any  vote  shall  be  in  order  after  a  bill,  resolution,  message  or  re- 
port, amendment  or  motion  upon  which  the  vote  was  taken,  shall  have 
gone  out  of  possession  of  the  senate  annoucing  their  decision;  nor  shall 
any  motion  or  reconsideration  be  in  order  unless  made  on  the  same  day 
on  which  the  vote  was  taken  or  within  the  next  two  days  of  actual 
session  of  the  senate  thereafter. 


STANDING  RULES  OF  THE  SENATE 


On  Calling  Members  to  the  Chair. 

20.  The  president  of  the  senate,  or  the  temporary  president,  shall  have 
the  right  to  name  a  member  to  perform  the  duties  of  the  chair,  but  such 
substitution  shall  not  extend  beyond  an  adjournment. 

Memorials  and  Petitions. 

21.  Every  petition,  or  memorial,  or  other  paper,  shall  be  referred,  of 
course,  without  putting  a  question  for  that  purpose,  unless  the  reference 
is  objected  to  by  a  member  at  the  time  such  petition,  memorial,  or  other 
paper  is  presented.  And  before  any  petition  or  memorial  addressed  to 
the  senate  shall  be  received  and  read  at  the  table,  whether  the  same 
shall  be  introduced  by  the  president  or  a  member,  a  brief  statement  of 
the  contents  of  the  petition  or  memorial  may  verbally  by  made  bo  the  in- 
troducer. 

Order  of  Business. 

22.  The  following  shall  be  the  order  of  busines; 

1.  Roll  call. 

2.  Prayer  by  the  chaplain. 

3.  Reading  journal. 

4.  Petitions  and  memorials. 

5.  Reports  from  standing  committees. 

6.  Reports  of  select  committees. 

7.  Resolutions. 

8.  Notices  and  introduction  of  bills, 

9.  Bills  on  first  reading. 

10.  Bills  on  second  reading. 

11.  Special  order. 

12.  Bills  on  third  reading, 

13.  Bills  on  their  passage. 

14.  Unfinished  business. 

15.  Special  order  of  the  day. 

On  Printing  Papers  and  Documents. 

23.  No  paper  or  document,  except  bills,  shall  be  printed  for  the  use  of 
the  Senate  without  special  order. 

ON  BILI.S. 

Reading,  Printing  and  Recommitment. 

24.  Every  bill  shall  receive  three  readings  previous  to  its  being 
passed,  and  the  president  shall  give  notice  at  each  whether  it  be  first, 
second,  or  third,  which  reading  shall  be  on  different  days.  And  all 
resolutions  to  which  the  approbation  and  signature  of  the  governor  may 
be  requisite,  or  which  may  grant  money  out  of  the  contingent  or  any 
other  fund,  shall  be  treated  in  all  respects,  in  the  introduction  and  from 
of  proceedings  on  them  in  the  senate,  in  a  similar  manner  with  bills; 
and  all  other  resolutions  shall  lie  on  the  table  one  day  for  consideration, 
and  also  reports  of  all  committees,  except  a  committee  of  the  whole,  and 
engrossed  and  enrolled  bills. 

25.  No  bills  shall  be  committed  or  amended  until  it  shall  have  been 
twice  read.  It  shall  then  be  printed,  unless  otherwise  ordered  hy  the 
senate,  and  then  referred  to  its  appropriate  standing  committee  or  the 
special  committee.  After  which  it  may  be  amended,  and  all  amend- 
ments thereto  shall  be  printed  before  the  vote  is  taken  on  its  final 
passage. 


I  STANDING  RULES  OF  THE  SENATE.  87 

;  26.  All  bills,  after  they  have  been  referred  to  their  appropriate  stand- 
ing or  special  committees,  and  reported  back  to  the  senate  and  printed, 
shall  first  be  considerded  by  the  senate  in  the  committee  of  the  whole  be- 
fore they  shall  first  be  taken  up  and  proceeded  on  by  the  senate,  agree- 
ably to  the  standing  rules,  unless  otherwise  ordered.  And  when  the 
senate  shall  consider  a  bill  or  resolution,  as  a  committee  of  the  whole, 
the  president  or  temporary  president  shall  call  a  member  to  fill  the  chair 
during  the  time  the  senate  shall  remain  in  committee  of  the  whole ;  and 
the  chairman  so  called  shall,  during  such  time,  have  the  power  of  a 
temporary  president. 

27.  The  final  question,  upon  the  second  reading  of  every  bill,  resoluion 
or  motion  orignating  in  the  senate,  and  requiring  three  readings  previous 
to  its  being  passed,  shall  be :  Whether  it  shall  be  engrossed  and  read  a 
third  time?"  and  no  amendment  shall  be  received  for  discussion  at  a 
third  reading  of  any  bill,  resolution,  or  motion,  unless  by  unanimous 
consent  of  the  members  present;  but  it  shall  at  all  times  be  in  order,  be- 
fore the  final  passage  of  any  bill,  resolution,  or  motion,  to  move  its  com- 
mitment; and  should  such  commitment  take  place  and  any  amendment 
be  reported  by  the  committee,  the  said  bill,  resolution,  or  motion  shall  be 
again  read  the  second  time,  and  considered  in  committee  of  the  whole, 
and  then  the  aforesaid  question  shall  be  again  put. 

28.  The  titles  of  bills  and  such  parts  thereof  only  as  shall  be  affected  by 
proposed  amendments,  shall  be  inserted  on  the  journal. 

The  Proceedings  Shall  he  Entered  on  the  Journal. 

29.  The  proceedings  of  the  senate,  when  not  acting  as  in  committee  of 
the  whole,  shall  be  entered  on  the  journal  as  concisely  as  possible,  care 
being  taken  to  detail  a  true  and  accurate  account  of  the  proceedings;  but 
every  vote  of  the  senate  shall  be  entered  on  the  journal,  and  a  brief  state- 
ment of  the  contents  of  each  petition,  memorial,  or  paper  presented  to 
the  senate,  shall  also  be  inserted  on  the  jouranal. 

On  Reference. 

30.  When  motions  are  made  for  reference  of  the  same  subject  to  a 
select  committee  and  to  a  standing  committee  the  question  on  reference 
to  the  standing  committee  shall  be  first  put. 

Nominations  by  the  Governor, 

31.  When  nominations  shall  be  made  in  writing  by  the  governor  to 
the  senate,  a  future  day  shall  be  assigned,  unless  the  senate  unanimously 
direct  otherwise,  for  taking  them  into  consideration. 

Confidential  Communications  by  the  Governor  to   be  Kept   Secret. 

32.  All  confidential  communications  made  by  the  Governor  to  the  sen- 
ate shall  be  by  the  members  thereof  kept  secret.  All  information  or  re- 
marks touching  or  concerning  the  character  or  qualification  of  any  per- 
son nominated  by  the  governor  to  office,  shall  be  kept  secret.  When  act 
ing  on  confidential  or  executive  business,  the  senate  shall  be  cleared  of 
all  persons  except  the  secretary  and  assistant  secretary  of  the  senate 
sergeant-at-arms,  and  door-keeper.  The  legislative  proceedings,  the  ex- 
ecutive proceedings,  and  the  confidential  legislative  proceedings  of  the 
senate  shall  be  kept  in  seperate  and  distinct  books. 

Messages. 

83.    Messages  shall  be  sent  to  the  house  by  the  secretary,  sergeant-at- 


STANDING  RULES  OF  THE  SENATE. 


arms,  or  door-keeper,  the  secretary  having  previously  endorsed  the  final 
determination  thereon. 

34.  Messages  are  introduced  in  any  state  of  business,  except  when  a 
question  is  being  put,  while  the  yeas  and  nays  are  being  called,  or  while 
the  ballots  are  being  counted. 

The  Presiding  Officer  Shall  Have  Supervision  Of— 

35.  The  presiding  oiiicer  of  the  senate  shall  have  the  regulation  of  such 
I)arts  of  the  capitol  and  its  passages  as  are  or  may  be  set  apart  for  the  use 
of  the  senate  and  its  officers. 

Rules  Governing  Committee  of  the  Whole. 

36.  The  rules  of  the  senate  shall  be  observed  in  the  committee  of  the 
whole,  so  far  as  they  may  be  applicable,  except  limiting  the  time  of  speak- 
ing, and  except  the  yeas  and  nays  shall  not  be  taken. 

37.  A  motion  that  a  committee  rise  shall  always  be  in  order,  and  shall 
be  decided  without  debate. 

Punishment  for  Disclosing  Secrets. 
88.    Any  officer  or  member  of  the  senate  convicted  of  disclosing  any 
matter  directed  by  the  senate  to  be  held  in  confidence,  shall  be  liable,  if 
an  officer,  to  dismissal  from  the  service  of  the  senate,  and  in  case  of  a 
member,  to  suffer  expulsion  from  that  body. 

Jefferson's  Manual  Shall  Govern  Except— 

39.  The  rules  of  parliamentary  practice  comprised  in  Jefferson's  man- 
ual shall  govern  the  senate  in  all  cases  in  which  they  are  applicable,  and 
in  which  they  are  not  inconsistent  with  the  standing  rules  and  orders  of 
the  senate,  and  the  joint  rules  of  the  senate  and  house  of  representatives. 

Reporters  Admitted. 

40.  Reporters  may  be  admitted  to  the  floor  of  the  senate  under  the  di- 
rection of  the  president,  and  are  required  to  inform  him  what  paper  they , 
report  tor. 

No  Smoking. 

41.  No  smoking  shall  be  allowed  in  the  senate  chamber  or  galleries 
during  the  session  of  the  senate. 

Rules  how  Amended  or  Suspended. 

42.  These  rules  may  be  altered,  amended,  or  suspended,  two-thirds  of 
the  members  present  voting  therefor 

Who  Priveleged  to  the  Floor. 

43.  No  person  shall  be  admitted  to  the  floor  of  the  senate  except  as  fol- 
lows: members  of  the  house  of  representatives  and  its  officers,  state  offi- 
cers and  their  clerks,  judges  of  the  supreme  and  district  courts,  senators 
and  representatives  in  congress. 

Emergency  Clause. 

44.  When  an  emergency  is  expressed  in  the  preamble  or  body  of  an  act, 
as  a  reason  why  such  act  should  take  effect  from  and  after  its  passage,  or 
some  day  less  than  three  calendar  months  after  the  adjournment  of  the 
session,  the  question  shall  be,  "Shall  the  bill  pass?"  and  if  decided  affirm 
actively  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  all  the  members  elected  to  the  senate, 
then  the  bill  shall  be  deemed  passed;  but  if  upon  such  vote  a  majority  of 
less  than  two-thirds  of  said  members  vote  affirmatively  on  said  question, 
then  the  vote  on  said  bill  shall  be  deemed  reconsidered,  and  the  bill  sub- 
ject to  amendment  by  striking  out  such  part  thereof  as  expresses  an  emer- 
gency and  the  time  of  taking  effect,  and  then  said  bill  shall  be  under  con- 
sideration upon  its  third  reading,  with  the  emergency  clause  and  the 
time  of  taking  effect  stricken  out. 


StANDING  RULES  Ot  THE  SENATB. 


Time  of  Meeting. 

45.  The  hours  of  meeting  of  the  senate  shall  be  at  10  o'clock  a.  m.  and 
at  2  o'clock  p.  M.  of  each  day,unless  otherwise  specially  ordered  by  a  vote 
of  the  senate. 

Foriuala  for  Amendments  to  Bills. 

46.  If  a  section  is  to  be  amended,  the  formula  should  be  after  tH^  enact- 
ing clause: 

That  section of  chapter of  the  code  of  civil  procedure,  of  the  state 

of  Nebraska,  (or  the  statutes  as  the  case  maybe)  be  amended  so  as  to  read 
as  follows:  Then  follow  the  sections  desired  as  amended,  full  and  com- 
plete in  themselves,  and  the  last  section  of  the  new  act  should  repeal  the 
section  which  has  been  amended. 

Committees  to  Report  Bills. 

47.  Every  bill  and  resolution  referred  to  any  special  or  standing  com- 
mittee, shall  be  reported  to  the  senate  by  such  committee  within  four 
days  after  such  referrence,  unless  further  time  is  specially  granted  by  the 
senate. 

Standing  Committees  to  be  Appointed  by  the  Senate. 

48.  All  standing  committees  of  the  senate  shall  be    appointed  by  the 

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STANDING  COMMITTEES. 

49.  The  senate  shall  have  the  following  standing  committees:  A  com- 
mittee of 

Nine  on  judiciary. 

Seven  on  finance,  ways,  and  means. 

Seven  on  agriculture. 

Five  on  highways,  bridges,  and  ferries. 

Five  on  accounts  and  expenditures. 

Five  on  military  aff'airs. 

Five  on  municipal  affairs. 

Seven  on  public  lands  and  buildings. 

Five  on  internal  improvements. 

Five  on  school  lands  and  school  funds. 

Five  on  federal  relations. 

Five  on  public  printing. 

Siven  on  enrolled  nnd  engrossed  bills. 

Five  on  counties  and  county  boundaries. 

Five  on  education. 

Five  on  library. 

Five  on  claims. 

Five  on  banks  and  currrency. 

Nine  on  railroads. 

Five  on  miscellaneous  corporations. 

Five  on  state  prison. 

Five  on  university  and  normal  school. 

Seven  on  constitutional  amendments. 

Five  on  public  charities. 

Five  on  privileges  and  elections. 

Five  on  live  stock  and  grazing  interests. 

Seven  on  miscellaneous  subjects. 

Five  on  medical  legislation. 

Three  on  insane  hospital. 

Three  on  deaf,  dumb,  and  blind  asylum. 


90  STANDING  BULES  OF  THE  SENATE. 

Three  on  reform  school  and  home  for  the  friendless. 

Nine  on  re-districting  and  apportionment. 

Five  on  immigration. 

Five  on  mines  and  minerals. 

Five  on  manufactures  and  commerce. 

Five  pn  labor. 

Five  on  revenue. 

Five  on  rules. 

Seven  on  standing  committees. 

Five  on  industrial  home  and  institute  for  feeble  minded  youth. 

Five  on  fish  culture  and  game. 

The  duties  of  the  committees  on  insane  hospital,  the  deaf  and  dumb 
and  blind  asylum,  and  reform  school  and  home  for  the  friendless,  shall 
be  confined  to  a  visit  of  the  committee  to  the  institutions  herein  named, 
and  a  report  thereon  to  the  senate  during  the  seession,  unless  otherwise 
ordered  by  the  senate. 

Members  to  be  Reported  Present  When  on  Committee  Work. 

50.  All  members  of  the  senate  shall  be  reported  present  by  the  secre- 
tary when  absent  on  committee  work,  except  when  the  "ayes  and  nays" 
are  called.    At  guch  time,  absentees  shall  be  notified  to  appear. 

Call  of  the  House. 

51.  The  call  of  the  house  shall  be  seconded  by  five  members,  and  the 
proceedings  under  the  call  shall  not  be  suspended  unless  all  the  members 
who  are  not  excused  are  present,  while  five  or  more  members  object. 

On  Pairs. 

52.  Whenever  a  senator  desires  to  be  a  absent  he  may  make  a  pair 
with  any  senator  who  may  agree  to  the  same;  the  president  of  the  senate 
to  be  notified  of  such  pair. 


HULKS  OF  TfiE  HOUSE  OP  REPRESENTATIVES. 


RULES  OF  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES. 


OF  THE  DUTIES  OF  THE  SPEAKER. 

1.  He  shall  take  the  chair  every  day  precisely  at  the  hour  to  which  the 
house  shall  have  adjourned  on  the  preceding  day;  shall  immediately  call 
the  members  to  order,  and  on  the  appearance  of  a  quorum,  shall  cause 
the  journal  of  the  preceding  day  to  be  read. 

2.  He  shall  preserve  order  and  decorum;  may  speak  to  points  of  order 
in  preference  to  other  members,  rising  from  his  seat  for  that  purpose;  and 
shall  decide  questions  of  order,  subject  to  an  appeal  to  the  house  by  any 
two  members,  on  which  appeal  no  member  shall  speak  more  than  once, 
unless  by  leave  of  the  house. 

3.  He  shall  rise  to  put  a  question,  but  may  state  it  sitting. 

4.  Questions  shall  be  distinctly  put  in  this  form,  to-wit:  "As  many  as 
are  of  the  opinion  that  (as  the  question  may  be),  say,  aye,"  and  after  the 
affirmative  voice  is  expressed,  "As  many  as  are  of  the  contrary  opinion, 
say  no."  If  the  speaker  doubts,  or  a  division  is  called  for,  the  house  shall 
divide;  those  in  the  affirmative  of  the  question  shall  first  rise  from  their 
seats,  and  afterwards  those  in  the  negative. 

5.  The  speaker  shall  examine  and  correct  the  journal  before  it  is  read. 
He  shall  have  general  direction  of  the  hall,  and  permit  no  smoking  there- 
in. He  shall  have  a  right  to  name  any  member  to  perform  the  duties  of 
the  chair,  but  such  substitutes  shall  not  extend  beyond  the  adjournment, 
and  in  case  of  absence  of  the  speaker  the  chairman  of  the  judiciary  com- 
mittee shall  act  as  speaker. 

6.  All  committees  shall  be  appointed  by  the  speaker  unless  otherwise 
especially  directed  by  the  house,  in  which  case  they  shall  be  appointed  by 
a  viva  voce  vote;  and  if  the  number  required  shall  not  be  elected  by  a  ma- 
jority of  the  votes  given,  the  house  shall  proceed  to  a  second  vote  in  which 
a  plurality  of  votes  shall  prevail;  and  in  case  a  greater  number  than  is  re- 
quired to  compose  or  complete  a  committee  shall  have  an  equal  number 
of  votes,  the  house  shall  proceed  to  a  further  choice. 

7.  In  all  cases  of  election  by  the  house,  the  speaker  shall  vote,  and  in 
other  cases  he  shall  vote  when  the  yeas  and  nays  are  demanded,  when  the 
house  is  equally  divided,  or  when  his  vote,  if  given  to  the  minority,  will 
make  the  division  equal,  and  in  case  of  equal  division  the  question  shall 
be  lost. 

8.  In  all  cases  where  other  than  a  member  of  the  house  shall  be  eligible 
to  an  office  by  the  election  of  the  house,  there  shall  be  a  previous  nomin- 
ation. 

9.  All  votes  shall  be  taken  viva  voce. 

10.  All  acts,  memorials,  and  joint  resolutions  passed  by  the  legislature 
shall  be  signed  by  the  speaker  in  the  presence  of  the  house,  while  in  ses- 
sion and  capable  of  transacting  business,  and  all  writs,  warrants,  and 
subpoenas  issued  by  order  of  the  house  shall  be  under  his  hand  and  seal 
attested  by  the  clerk. 

Who  Admitted  to  the  Privileges  of  the  Floor. 

11.  No  person  shall  be  admitted  Into  the  hall  of  the  house  of  represen- 
tatives except  the  members  and  the  officers  of  the  senate,  the  judicial  and 
state  officers,  the  officers  of  the  house,  and  such  other  persons  as  the  house 
may  deem  proper  to  admit. 


92  EULES  OF  THE  HOUSE  OF  EEPRESENTATIVES. 

Order  of  Basiness. 

12.  Order  of  business  of  the  day: 

1.  Prayer  by  the  chaplain. 

2.  Roll  call. 

3.  Reading  the  journal. 

4.  Petitions  and  memorials. 

5.  Reports  of  standing  committees. 

6.  Reports  of  select  committees. 

7.  Resolutions. 

8.  Introduction  of  bills. 

9.  Bills  on  first  reading. 

10.  Bills  on  second  reading. 

11.  Bills  on  third  reading. 

12.  Bills  not  yet  considered  in  the  committee  of  the  whole. 

13.  Special  order  of  the  day. 

14.  Unfinished  business  and  messages  on  speaker's  desk. 

15.  Miscellaneous  business. 

13.  Provided,  however,  that  after  the  reading  of  the  journal  each  day, 
the  house  shall  proceed  with  the  regular  orders,  commencing  in  the  order 
upon  which  it  was  last  engaged  at  the  time  of  adjournment  of  the  preced- 
ing day,  first  disposing  of  the  particular  business  of  the  order  which  may 
have  been  pending  at  adjournment,  and  as  soon  as  the  regular  orders  have 
been  called  through  the  call  shall  be  resumed,  commencing  with  the  first 
order  and  proceeding  in  the  same  manner. 

On  Decorum  and  Debate. 

14.  When  any  member  is  about  to  speak  indebate  or  deliver  any  matter 
to  the  house,  he  shall  arise  from  his  seat  and  respectfully  address  himself 
to  "Mr.  Speaker,"  and  shall  «onfine  himself  to  the  question  under  debate, 
and  avoid  personalities. 

15.  If  a  member  be  called  to  order  for  words  spoken  in  debate,  the  per- 
son calling  him  to  order  shall  repeat  the  words  excepted  to,  and  they  shall 
be  taken  down  in  writing  at  the  clerk's  table;  and  no  member  shall  be 
held  to  answer  or  subject  to  the  censure  of  the  house  for  words  spoken  in 
debate,  if  any  member  has  spoken  or  other  business  intervened  after  the 
words  spoken,  and  before  exception  to  them  shall  have  been  taken. 

No  Member  Shall  Speak  More  Than  Once  Except — 

16.  No  member  shall  speak  more  than  once  on  the  same  question  with- 
out leave  of  the  house,  except  in  explanation,  unless  he  be  the  mover,  or 
proposer,  or  introducer  of  the  matter  pending,  in  which  case  he  shall  be 
permitted  to  speak  in  reply,  but  not  until  every  member  choosing  to 
speak  shall  have  spoken. 

17.  If  a  question  pending  be  lost  by  adjournment  of  the  house  and  re- 
vived on  the  succeeding  day,  no  member  who  shall  have  spoken  on  the 
preceding  day  shall  be  permitted  again  to  speak  without  leave,  except  it 
be  the  mover,  proposer,  or  introducer  of  the  matter  pending,  who  shall 
have  the  same  right  as  in  the  last  preceding  rule. 

No  Member  Without  the  bar  Shall  be  Counted. 

18.  Upon  a  division  and  count  of  the  house  on  any  question,  no  mem- 
ber without  the  bar  shall  be  counted. 

Every  Member  Shall  Vote  Unless  Excused. 

19.  Every  member  who  shall  he  in  the  house  when  the  question  is  put 
shall  give  his  vote,  unless  the  house,  for  special  reasons,  shall  excuse  him. 
All  motions  to  excuse  a  member  from  voting  shall  be  made  before  the 


RULES  OF  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES.  93 

house  divides,  or  before  the  yeas  and  nays  are  commenced;  and  any  mem- 
ber requesting  to  be  excused  from  voting  may  make  a  brief  verbal  state- 
ment of  the  reasons  for  making  such  request,  and  the  question  shall  then 
be  taken  without  further  debate. 

Motions  to  be  stated  by  the  speaker  Before  Being:  Debated. 

20.  When  a  motion  is  made  and  seconded,  it  shall  be  stated  by  the 
speaker,  or  being  in  writing,  shall  be  read  aloud  by  the  clerk  before  being 
debated. 

Every  Motion  to  be  Reduced  to  Writing. 

21.  Every  motion  shall  be  reduced  to  writing,  if  the  speaker  or  any 
member  desires  it. 

Motion  may  be  Withdrawn  by  Consent. 

22.  After  the  motion  is  stated  by  the  speaker,  or  read  by  the  clerk,  it 
shall  be  deemed  in  possession  of  the  house,  but  may  be  withdrawn  at  any 
time  before  a  decision  or  amendment,  by  consent. 

The  Order  of  Motions. 

23.  When  a  question  is  under  debate,  no  motion  shall  be  received  but 
to  adjourn,  to  lie  on  the  table,  for  the  previous  question,  to  postpone  in- 
definitely, to  postpone  to  a  day  certain,  to  commit  or  amend ;  which  sev- 
eral motions  shall  have  precedence  in  the  order  in  which  they  are  ar- 
ranged; and  no  motion  to  postpone  to  a  day  certain,  to  commit,  or  to  post- 
pone indefinitely,  being  decided,  shall  again  be  allowed  on  the  same  day 
at  the  same  stage  of  the  bill  or  proposition.  A  motion  to  strike  out  the 
enacting  words  of  a  bill  shall  have  precedence  of  a  motion  to  amend,  and 
if  carried,  is  equivalent  to  its  rejection. 

The  Order  of  Commitment. 

24.  When  a  resolution  shall  be  offered  or  a  motion  made  to  refer  any 
subject,  and  different  committees  proposed,  the  question  shall  be  taken 
in  the  following  order:  The  committee  of  the  whole;  a  standing  com- 
mittee; a  select  committee. 

Motion  to  Adjourn  Always  in  Order. 

25.  A  motion  to  adjourn,  a  motion  to  fix  the  day  to  which  the  house 
stall  adjourn,  shall  always  be  in  order;  these  motions  and  a  motion  to  lie 
on  the  table  shall  be  decided  without  debate. 

Hour  of  Adjournment  to  be  Entered  on  Journal. 

26.  The  hour  at  which  every  motion  to  adjourn  is  made,  shall  be  en- 
tered on  the  journal. 

The  Previous  Question. 

27.  The  previous  question  shall  be  in  this  form :  "Shall  the  debate  now 
close?"  It  shall  be  admitted  when  demanded  by  five  or  more  members 
and  must  be  sustained  by  a  majority  vote,  and  until  decided  shall  pre- 
clude further  debate  and  all  amendments  and  motions  except  one  motion 
to  adjourn  and  one  motion  to  lie  on  the  table. 

No  Debate  on  Previous  Questions. 

28.  On  a  previous  question  there  shall  be  no  debate.  All  incidental 
questions  of  order,  arising  after  a  motion  is  made  for  the  previous  ques- 
tion, and  pending  such  motion,  shall  be  decided,  whether  on  appeal  or 
otherwise,  without  debate. 

Any  Member  may  Call  for  a  Division  of  the  Question. 

29.  Anv  member  may  call  for  a  division  of  the  question,  which  shall  be 
divided  if  it  comprehend  propositions  in  substance  so  distinct,  that  one 
being  taken  away,  a  substantive  proposition  shall  remain  for  the  decision 
of  the  house.    A  motion  to  strike  out  and  insert  shall  be  deemed  inadvis- 


94  BULES  OF  THE  HOUSE  OF  EEPRESENTATIVES. 

able ;  but  a  motion  to  strike  out  being  lost,  shall  preclude  neither  amend- 
ment nor  a  motion,  to  strike  out  or  insert. 
Different  Propositions  Under  Color  of  Amendment  not  Admissible. 

30.  No  motion  or  proposition,  or  a  subject  different  from  that  under 
consideration,  shall  be  admitted  under  color  of  amendment.  No  bill  or 
resolution  shall  at  any  time  be  amendad  by  annexing  thereto,  or  incor- 
porating therewith,  any  other  bill  or  resolution  pending  before  the  house. 

On  Reconsideration 

31.  When  a  motion  has  been  once  made  and  carried  in  the  affirmative 
or  negative,  it  shall  be  in  order  for  any  member  of  the  majority  to  move 
a  reconsideration  thereof  on  the  same  or  succeeding  day ;  and  such  motion 
shall  take  precedence  of  all  other  questions  except  a  motion  to  adjourn. 

Reading:  of  Papers  Must  Have  Consent. 

32.  When  the  reading  of  a  paper  is  called  for,  and  the  same  is  objected 
to  by  any  member,  it  shall  be  determined  by  vote  of  the  house. 

Any  two  Members  may  Call  for  the  Yeas  and  Nays. 

33.  Any  two  members  may  call  for  the  yeas  and  nays  upon  any  question 
and  may  demand  a  call  of  the  house ;  a  majority  of  the  members  present 
may  compel  the  presence  of  all  members  subject  to  a  call  of  the  house. 

Names  of  Members  to  be  Called  Alphabetically. 

34.  Upon  a  call  of  the  house,  or  upon  taking  the  yeas  and  nays  upon 
any  question,  the  names  of  the  members  shall  be  called  alphabetically. 

No  Member  to  be  Absent  "Without  Leave. 

35.  No  member  shall  absent  himself  from  the  service  of  the  house,  un- 
less he  have  leave,  or  be  sick,  or  unable  to  attend. 

Call  of  the  House. 

36.  Upon  the  call  of  the  house,  the  names  of  the  members  shall  be  called 
over  by  the  clerk  and  the  absentees  noted,  after  which  the  names  of  the 
absentees  shall  be  again  called  over;  the  doors  shall  then  be  shut,  and 
those  for  whom  no  excuse  is  made  may,  by  order  of  those  present,  if  five 
in  number,  be  taken  into  custody,  as  they  appear,  or  may  be  sent  for  and 
taken  into  custody  wherever  found,  by  the  sergeant-at-arms  or  special 
messenger  to  be  appointed  for  that  purpose. 

House  May  Remit  Penalty. 

37.  When  a  person  shall  be  discharged  from  custody  and  admitted  to 
his  seat  the  house  shall  determine  whether  such  discharge  shall  be  with- 
out paying  fees;  and  in  like  manner,  whether  a  delinquent  member  taken 
into  custody  by  a  special  messenger  shall  or  shall  not  be  liable  to  defray 
the  expenses  of  such  messenger. 

Serg:eant-at-Arms. 

38.  A  sergeant-at-arms  shall  be  elected,  to  hold  his  office  during  the 
pleasure  of  the  house,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  attend  the  house  during 
its  sittings,  to  execute  the  commands  of  the  house  from  time  to  time,  to- 
gether with  all  such  process  issued  by  authority  thereof,  as  shall  be  di- 
rected to  tim  by  the  speaker. 

All  Officers  to  be  Sworn. 

39.  All  officers  shall  be  sworn  to  keep  the  secrets  of  the  house. 

Standing:  Committees. 

40.  Forty -two  standing  committees  shall  be  appointed  by  the  speaker, 
who  shall  name  one  member  of  each  committee  to  be  the  chairman,  und 


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said  committee  to  consist  of  the  following  number  of  members,  and  to  be 
known  and  designated  by  the  following  names: 

Eleven  on  the  judiciary. 

Eleven  on  finance,  ways,  and  means. 

Seven  on  agriculture. 

Seven  on  roads  and  bridges. 

Nine  on  militia. 

Thirteen  on  public  lands  and  buildings. 

Seven  on  internal  improvements. 

Seven  on  federal  relations. 

Nine  on  engrossed  and  enrolled  bills. 

Nine  on  accounts  and  expenditures. 

Eleven  on  constitutional  amendments. 

Nine  on  county  boundaries,  county  seats,  and  township  organization. 

Fifteen  on  railroads. 

Eleven  on  privileges  and  elections. 

Nine  on  state  penitentiary. 

Nine  on  insane  hospital. 

Nine  on  other  asylums. 

Seven  on  corporations. 

Seven  on  library. 

Nine  on  cities  and  towns. 

Seven  on  banks  and  currency. 

Seven  on  public  schools. 

Nine  on  university  and  normal  schools. 

Nine  on  public  printing, 

Seven  on  mines  and  minerals. 

Eleven  on  immigration. 

Seven  on  manufactures  and  commerce. 

Nine  on  school  lands  and  funds. 

Seven  on  miscellaneous  subjects. 

Eleven  on  claims. 

Nine  on  live  stock  and  grazing  interests. 

Eleven  on  revenue  and  taxation. 

The  speaker  and  six  on  rules. 

Thirteen  on  labor. . 

Fifteen  on  apportionment. 

Seven  on  benevolent  institutions. 

Seven  on  fish  culture  and  games. 

Nine  on  insurance. 

Nine  on  telegraph,  telephone  and  electric  companies. 

Seven  on  medical  societies,  Sunday  laws  and  regulations. 

Nine  on  fees  and  salaries. 

Seven  on  soldiers  home. 

41.  The  several  standing  committees  of  the  house  shall  have  leave  to 
report  by  bill  or  otherwise. 

On  BiUs. 

42.  Every  bill  shall  be  introduced  on  the  report  of  the  committee,  or 
\Y  any  member,  when  the  introduction  of  bills  is  for,  or  at  any  time  by 
leave. 

43.  Every  bill  and  concurrent  resolution  shall  be  read  at  large  on 


%  EULES  OF  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES. 

three  different   days,    and  the  bill  and  all  amendments  thereto  shall 
be  printed  before  the  vote  is  taken  upon  its  final  passage. 

44.  Fvery  bill,  joint  and  concurrent  resolution  shall,  upon  Its  intro- 
duction, be  read  the  first  time.  The  question  shall  then  be,  "Shall  the 
bill  be  ordered  to  a  second  reading?"  If  not  sa  ordered  it  shall  be  deemed 
equivalent  to  its  rejection. 

45.  Upon  the  second  reading  of  the  bill,  the  speaker  shall  state  it  as 
ready  for  commitment  or  engrossment;  and  if  committed,  then  the  ques- 
tion shall  be,  whether  to  a  select  or  standing  committee,  or  to  a  committee 
of  the  whole  house,  if  no  motion  be  made  to  commit,  the  question  shall 
be  stated  on  its  engrossment;  and  if  not  ordered  to  be  engrossed  on  the 
day  of  its  being  reported,  it  shall  be  placed  on  the  general  file  on  the 
speaker's  table  to  be  taken  up  in  its  order. 

46.  Five  hundred  copies  of  every  bill  shall  be  printed,  after  a  second 
reading,  unless  otherwise  ordered ;  and  all  bills,  resolutions,  and  memo- 
rials that  shall  be  printed,  shall  remain  at  least  one  day  on  the  files  after 
being  printed,  before  being  considered. 

47.  After  commitment  and  report  thereof  the  house,  or  any  time  before 
a  bill  is  ordered  to  a  third  reading,  it  may  be  recommitted, 

48.  After  a  bill  shall  have  been  ordered  to  a  third  reading,  five  hun- 
dred copies  of  the  amendments  thereto  shall  be  printed,  unless  the  house 
orders  the  entire  bill  printed  as  amended,  and  no  amendments  thereto 
shall  be  afterwards  allowed. 

49.  All  bills  ordered  to  be  engrossed  shall  be  executed  in  a  fair,  round 
hand. 

50.  Upon  the  passage  of  every  bill  or  joint  resolution,  the  vote  shall  be 
yea  or  nay,  and  this  rule  shall  not  be  suspended. 

51.  The  question  after  the  third  reading  of  every  bill  shall  be  stated  as 
follows:  "This  bill  having  been  read  at  large  on  three  different  days,  and 
the  same,  with  all  its  amendments,  having  been  printed,  the  question  is 
'Shall  the  bill  pass!'" 

Me8sag:e  to  the  Senate. 

52.  All  messages  from  the  house  to  the  senate  shall  be  transmitted  by 
the  clerk  or  assistant  clerk  of  the  house,  or  by  a  special  committee  ap- 
poi  nted  for  that  purpose. 

Rules,  how  Changed. 

53.  No  standing  rule  or  order  of  the  house  shall  be  rescinded,  changed 
or  suspended,  except  by  a  vote  of  at  least  a  majority  of  the  members 
elected;  nor  shall  the  order  of  business,  as  established  by  the  rules  of 
the  house,  be  postponed  or  changed,  except  by  a  vote  of  at  least  a  ma- 
jority of  the  members  elected. 

A  Privileged  Committee. 

54.  It  shall  be  in  order  for  the  committee  on  engrossed  and  enrolled 
bills  to  report  at  any  time. 

Cushing's  Manual  shall  Govern  £xcept — 

55.  The  rules  of  parliamentary  practice  comprised  in  Cushing's  Manu- 
al shall  govern  the  house  in  all  cases  to  which  they  are  applicable,  and 
in  which  they  are  not  inconsistent  with  standing  rules  and  orders  of  the 
house,  and  the  joint  rules  ot  the  senate  and  house  of  representatives. 

Reconsideration. 

56.  No  bill  or  question  which  has  been  once  passed  or  rejected  shall  be 


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called  up  for  reconsideration  during?  the  same  session,  unless  two-thirds 
of  the  house  shall  be  in  favor  of  taking  the  same. 

General  Iiaws  Take  Precedence. 

57.  All  bills  for  general  laws  shall  take  precedence  on  the  speaker's 
table  to  local  bills  and  special  enactments. 

Enaergency  Clause. 

58.  When  an  emergency  is  expressed  in  the  preamble  or  body  of  an  act 
as  a  reason  why  such  act  should  take  effect  prior  to  the  expiration  of  the 
three  calender  months  after  the  adjournment  of  the  session  at  which  it 
passed,  the  question  shall  be,  "Shall  the  bill  pass?"  and  if  decided  affirm- 
atively by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  all  the  members  elected  to  the  house, 
then  the  bill  shall  be  deemed  passed;  but  if,  upon  such  vote,  a  majority  of 
less  than  two-thirds  of  said  members  vote  affirmatively  on  said  question 
then  the  vote  on  said  bill  shall  be  deemed  reconsidered,  and  the  bill  sub- 
ject to  amendment  by  striking  out  such  part  thereof  as  expresses  an  emer- 
gency and  the  time  of  taking  effect,  and  then  said  bill  shall  be  under 
consideration  upon  its  third  reading,  with  an  emergency  clause  »nd  the 
time  of  taking  effoot  stricken  out. 

Committees  Entitled  to  Clerks. 

59.  There  shall  be  a  clerk  to  each  of  the  following  committees,  who 
;<liall  be  appointed  and  removed  by  the  chairman  of  the  committee: 

Committe  on  judiciary. 

Committee  on  finance,  ways  and  means. 

Committee  on  railroads. 

Committee  on  public  lands  and  buildings. 

Committee  on  engrossed  and  enrolled  bills. 

Committee  on  clains. 

Hours  For  Convening. 

60.  The  hours  for  convening  shall  be  10  o'clock  a.  m.  and  2  o'clock    p.  m 
each  day,  unless  otherwise  specially  ordered. 

Cha^g^e3. 

The  house  in  1897  made  the  following  changes  : 

Rule  19  to  read  as  follows  : 

19.  Every  member  who  shall  be  in  the  house  when  the  question  Is  put 
shall  give  his  vote. 

Kule  44  to  read  as  follows: 

44.  Every  bill,  joint  and  concurrent  resolution  shall,  upon  its  first  intro- 
duction, be  read  the  first  time. 

Rule  45  was  amended  by  striking  out  the  words  "  select  or"  between  the 
words  "  a  "  and  "  standing." 

Rule  53  was  amended  by  striking  out  all  after  the  word  "members"  at 
the  end  of  second  line. 

Rule  59  was  amended  by  striking  out  "Committee  on  Railroads,"  and 
••Committee  on  Public  Lands  and  Buildings,"  and  inserting  "Committee 
on  Accounts  and  Expenditures,"  and  "Committee  on  Privileges  and  Elec- 
tions." 

Rule  61  was  stricken  out. 


98  JOINT  RULES  OF  THE  SENATE  AND  HOUSE  OF  REPKESENTATIVES. 

JOINT  RULES  OF  THE  SENATE  AND  HOUSE  OF  REP- 
RESENTATIVES. 

Conference  Committees. 

1.  In  every  case  of  an  amendment  of  a  bill  agreed  to  in  one  house  and 
dissented  to  in  the  other,  if  either  house  shall  request  a  conference,  and 
appoint  a  committee  for  that  purpose,  and  the  other  house  shall  appoint 
a  committee  to  confer,  such  committee  shall,  at  a  convenient  hour,  to 
be  agreed  upon  by  their  chairman,  meet  and  state  to  each  other  verbally, 
or  in  writing,  as  either  shall  choose,  the  reasons  of  their  respective 
houses  for  and  against  the  amendment,  and  confer  freely  thereon. 

Messages  from  the  Senate. 

2.  When  a  message  shall  be  sent  from  the  senate  to  the  house  of  rep- 
resentatives, it  shall  be  announced  at  the  door  of  the  house  by  the  ser- 
geant-at-arms,  and  shall  be  respectfully  communicated  to  the  chair  by 
the  person  by  whom  it  may  be  sent. 

Messages  to  the  Senate. 

3.  The  same  ceremony  shall  be  observed  when  a  message  shall  be  sent 
from  the  house  of  representatives  to  the  senate. 

When  Messages  may  be  Transmitted. 

4.  Messages  may  be  transmitted  from  one  house  to  the  other  at  any 
time  while  the  house  to  which  the  message  is  sent  is  in  session ;  provided 
neither  house  shall  have  adjourned  for  a  longer  period  than  one  day. 

AU  Bills  Shall  be  Signed. 
6.    All  bills  shall  be  signed  by  the  secretary  or  chief  clerk  of  the  house 
in  which  they  originated,  before  the  transmission  to  the  other  house. 
Bills  that  have  Passed  to  be  Enrolled. 

6.  After  a  bill  shall  have  passed  both  houses,  it  shall  be  duly  enrolled 
by  the  enrolling  clerk  or  of  the  house  in  which  itorignated,  before  it  shall 
be  presented  to  the  governor. 

Duty  of  Joint  Committee  on  Enrolled  Bills. 

7.  When  a  bill  is  duly  enrolled,  it  shall  be  examined  by  the  commit- 
tees of  the  two  houses  on  enrolled  bills,  acting  jointly,  who  shall 
carefully  compare  the  enrolled  bill  with  the  engrossed  bill  as  passed  by 
the  two  houses.  Said  commitee  shall  correct  any  errors  that  may  be  dis- 
covered in  the  enrolled  bill,  and  make  their  report  forthwith  to  their 
respective  houses. 

8.  After  examination  and  report  each  bill  shall  be  signed  in  their  re- 
spective house,  first  by  the  speaker  of  the  house  of  representatives,  then 
by  the  president  of  the  senate,  there  being  endorsed  on  the  roll  a  certi- 
ficate of  the  secretary  or  chief  clerk  of  the  house  in  which  the  same  ori- 
ginated. 

9.  After  a  bill  shall  have  thus  been  signed  in  each  house,  it  shall  be 
presented  by  said  committee  to  the  governor  for  his  approval,  and  the 
said  committee  shall  report  the  day  of  presentation  to  the  goverisitfl:, 
which  time  shall  be  carefully  entered  on  the  journal  of  each  house. 

10.  All  orders,  resolutions,  and  votes  which  are  to  be  presented  to  the 
governor  for  his  approval,  shall  also,  in  the  same  manner,  be  enrolled,  ex- 


JOINT  KULES  OF  THE  SENATE  AND  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES.  99 

amined,  and  signed,  and  shall  be  presented  in  the  same  manner  and  by 
the  same  committee  as  provided  in  the  case  of  bills 

Joint  Address  to  the  Governor. 

11.  When  the  senate  and  house  of  representatives  shall  judge  it  proper 
to  make  a  joint  address  to  the  governor,  it  shall  be  presented  to  him  by 
the  president  of  the  senate,  in  the  presence  of  the  speaker  and  both  houses. 
A  Measure  once  Rejected  in  one  House  can  be  renewed  by  a  two- 
thirds  Vote. 

12.  When  a  hill  or  resolution,  which  has  been  passed  in  one  house, 
shall  be  rejected  in  the  other,  it  shall  not  be  brought  in  during  the  same 
session,  without  leave  of  two-thirds  of  that  house  within  which  it  shall 
be  renewed. 

Each.  House  shall  Transmit  Papers  when  Demanded. 

13.  Each  house  shall  transmit  to  the  other,  in  ease  they  are  demanded, 
all  papers  on  which  any  bill  or  resolution  shall  be  founded. 

£ach  House  to  give  Notice  to  the  Other. 

14.  When  a  bill  or  resolution,  which  has  been  passed  in  one  house, 
shall  be  rejected  in  the  other,  notice  thereof  shall  be  given  to  the  house 
in  which  the  same  originated;  and  after  each  house  shall  have  adhered 
to  its  disagreement,  a  bill  or  resolution  shall  be  lost. 

Joint  Convention. 

15.  Whenever  there  shall  be  a  joint  convention  of  the  two  houses  the 
proceedings  shall  be  entered  at  length  on  the  journal  of  each  house.  The 
president  of  the  senate  shall  preside  over  such  joint  convention,  and 
the  secretary  of  the  senate  shall  act  as  clerk  thereof,  assisted  by  the  chief 
clerk  of  the  house. 

No  Adjournment  Lionger  than  Three  Days. 

16.  Neither  house  shall  adjourn  during  any  session  thereof,  without 
the  consent  of  the  other,  for  a  longer  period  than  three  days. 

Call  of  the  House. 

17.  A  call  of  the  house  may  be  made  when  in  joint  session  on  motion 
seconded  by  five  members,  and  the  proceedings  under  the  call  shall  not 
be  suspended  while  five  members  object,  unless  all  members  are  presen 
who  are  not  excussed 


100  APPORTIONMENT. 


APPORTIONHENT, 


CONGRESSIONAIi  DISTRICTS. 

FIRST  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Cass,  Otoe,  Nemalia,  Richardson,  Pawnee, 
Johnson,  and  Lancaster. 

SECOND  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  counties  of  Sarpy,  Douglas,  and  Washington. 

THIRD  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Burt,  Thurston,  Dakota,   Dixon,  Cuming, 
Dodge,  Colfax,  Stanton,  Wayne,  Cedar,  Knox,  Pierce,  Madison,  Platte, 
Nance,  Boone,  Antelope,  and  Merrick. 

FOURTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Saunders,  Butler,  Seward,  Saline,  Gage, 
Jefferson,  Thayer,  Fillmore,  York,  Polk  and  Hamilton. 
FIFTH  DISTRICT. 
Consist  of  the  counties  of  Hall,  Adams,  Webster,  Franklin,  Kearney, 
Phelps,  Harlan,    Gosper,  Furnas,    Red  Willow,    Frontier,    Hitchcock, 
Hayes,  Perkins,  Chase,  Dundy,  Nuckolls  and  Clay, 
SIXTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Sioux,  Scotts  Bluff,  Banner,  Kimball,  Dawes, 
Box  Butte,  Cheyenne,  Sheridan,  Deuel,  Cherry,  Grant,  Arthur,  Keith, 
Lincoln,  McPherson,   Hooker,  Thomas,  Logan,  Dawson,  Custer,  Blaine, 
Brown,  Keya  Paha,  Rock,  Loup,  Holt,  Garfield,  Valley,  Sherman,  Buffalo, 
Harvard,  Greely,  Wheeler  and  Boyd. 


SENATORIAL,  DISTRICTS. 

FIRST  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Richardson  and  Pawnee  and  are  entitled  to 

one  senator. 

SECOND  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  counties  of  Nemaha  and  Johnson  and  are  entitled  to  one 
senator. 

THIRD  DISTRICT 

Consists  of  the  county  of  Otoe  and  is  entitled  to  one  senator. 

FOURTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Cass  and  is  entitled  to  one  senator. 

FIFTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Saunders  and  Sarpy  and  are  entitled  to  one 

senator. 

SIXTH  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  county  of  Douglas  and  is  entitled  to  three  senator. 

SEVENTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Cuming  and  Burt  and  are  entitled  to  one  sen- 
ator. 


APPORTIONMENT.  101 


EIGHTH  DISTRICT:- 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Dixon,  Dakota,  Kno?:,.  Cedar,  and,  T\iurston 
and  are  entitled  to  one  senator.        -        • ,  ►  . 
NINTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Antelope,  Boone,  and  Greeley  and  are  en- 
titled to  one  senator. 

TENTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Washington  and  Dodge  and  are  entitled  to 
one  senator. 

ELEVENTH  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  counties  of  Wayne,  Stanton,  Madison,  and  Pierce  and  are 
entitled  to  one  senator. 

TWELFTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Platte  and  Colfax  and  are  entitled  to  one  sen- 
ator. 

THIRTEENTH  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  counties  of  Holt,  Garfield,  Wheeler,  and  the  unorgan- 
ized territory  north  of  Holt  and  Keya  Paha  and  be  entitled  to  one  sena- 
tor. 

FOURTEENTH  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  counties  of  Brown,  Keya  Paha,  Cherry,  Sheridan,  Dawes 
Box  Butte,  and  Sioux  and  is  entitled  to  one  senator. 
FIFTEENTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Custer,  Valley,  Loup,  and  Blaine  and  are  en- 
title to  one  senator. 

SIXTEENTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Buffalo  and  Sherman  and  are  entitled  to  one 
senator. 

SEVENTEENTH  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  counties  of  Hall  and  Howard  and  are  entitled  to  one  sen- 
ator. 

EIGHTEENTH  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  counties  of  Polk,  Merrick,  and  Nance  and  are  entitled  to 
one  senator. 

NINETEENTH  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  counties  of  Butler  and  Seward  and  are  entitled  to  one 
senator. 

TWENTIETH  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  county  of  Lancaster  and  are  entitled  to  two  senators. 

TWENTY-FIRST  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Gage  and  is  entitled  to  one  senator. 

TWENTY-SECOND  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Saline  and  is  entitled  to  one  senator. 

TWENTY-THIRD  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Jefferson  and  Thayer  and  are  entitled  to  one 

senator. 

TWENTY-FOURTH  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  counties  of  York  and  Fillmore  and  are  entitled  to  one 
senator. 


102  APPOiaTIOKMEKt. 


rWEJSfXT-FIFTH  DISTRICT. 
.Cons^Sst?  oi  the^  cpRn^ies  ,of  ,Cla7  and  Hamilton  and  is  entitled  to  one 
seiiatoj.c'  ;■'(';<'    -  .  ;  '       '.-''■, 

'  >  TWENTY-SIXTH  DISTRICT 

Consists  of  the  counties  of  Nuckolls,  Webster,  and  Franklin  and  is  en- 
titled to  one  senator. 

TWENTY-SEVENTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Adams  and  is  entitled  to  one  senator. 

TWENTY -EIGHTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Kearney,  Phelps,  and  Harlan  and  is  entitled 
to  one  senator. 

TWENTY-NINTH  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  counties  of  Furnas,  Red  Willow-  Hitchcock   Dundy, 
Gosper,  Frontier,  Chase  and  Hayes  and  is  entitled  to  one  senator. 
THIRTIETH  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  counties  of  Dawson,  Lincoln,  Keith,  Cheyenne,  Logan, 
and  the  unorganized  territory  west  of  Blaine  and  Logan  and  is  entitled 
to  one  senator. 


REPRESENSATIVE  DISTRICTS. 

FIRST  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Richardson  and  is  entitled  to  three  repre- 
sentatives. 

SECOND  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  county  of  Pawnee  and  is  entitled  to  two  representatives. 

THIRD  DISTRICTS. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Nemaha  and  is  entitled  to  two  representa- 
tives. 

FOURTH  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  county  of  Johnson  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

FIFTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  otthe  counties  of  Nemaha  and  Johnson  and  is  entitled  to  one 
representative. 

SIXTH  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  county  of  Otoe  and  is  entitled  to  two  representatives. 

SEVENTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Cass  and  is  entitled  to  two  representatives. 

EIGHTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of' Cass  and  Otoe  and  is  entitled  to  one  repre- 
sentative. 

NINTH  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  county  of  Sarpy  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

TENTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Douglas  and  is  entitled  to  nine  representatives. 

ELEVENTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Washington  and  is  entitled  to  one  representa- 
tive. 


APPORTIONMENT.  103 


TWELFTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Burt  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

THIRTEENTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Burt  and  Washington  and  is  entitled  to  one 
representative. 

FOURTEENTH  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  county  of  Dodge  and  is  entitled  to  two  representatives 

FIFTEENTH  DISTRICT  . 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Cuming  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

SIXTEENTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Cuming,  Dakota  and  Thurston  and  are  enti- 
tled to  one  representative. 

SEVENTEENTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Wayne  and  Stanton  and  Is  entitled  to  one 
representative. 

EIGHTEENTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Dixon  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

NINETEENTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Cedar  and  Pierce  and  is  entitled  to  one  rep 
resentative. 

TWENTIETH  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  county  of  Knox  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

TWENTY-FIRST  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Antelope  and  is  entitled  to  one  representa- 
tive. 

TWENTY-SECOND  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  county  of  Boone  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

TWENTY-THIRD  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Madison  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

TWENT-y -FOURTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Platte  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

TWENTY-FIFTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Platte  and  Nance  and  is  entitled  to  one  rep- 
resentative. 

TWENTY-SIXTH  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  county  of  Colfax  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

TWENTY-SEVENTH  DISRTICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Saunders  and  is  entitled  to  two  representa- 

TWENTY-EIGHTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Butler  and  is  entitled  to  two  representatives. 

TWENTY-NINTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Seward  and  is  entitled  to  two  representatives 

THIRTIETH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Lancaster  and  is  entitled  to  Ave  representa- 
tives. 


104  APPOBTIOKMEUT. 


THIRTY-FIRST  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Saline  and  is  entitled  to  two  representatives, 

THIRTY-SECOND  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Gage  and  is  entitled  to  three  representatives 

THIRTY-THIRD  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Gage  and  Saline  and  are  entitled  to  one  rep- 
resentative. 

THIRTY-FOURTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  JeflFerson  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

THIRTY-FIFTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Thayer  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

THIRTY-SIXTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Thayer  and  Jefferson  and  are  entitled  to  one 
representative. 

'  THIRTY-SEVENTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the    county  of  Fillmore  and  is  entitled  to  two  representa- 
tives. 

THIRTY-EIGHTH  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  county  of  York  and  is  entitled  to  two  representatives. 

THIRTY-NINTH   DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  coiinty  of  Polk  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

FORTIETH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Merrick  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

FORTY -FIRST  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Hamilton  and  is  entitled  to  two  representa- 
tives. 

FORTY-SECOND  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Clay  and  is  entitled  to  two  representatives. 

FORTY-THIRD  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Nuckolls  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

FORTY-FOURTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Webster  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative 

FORTY-FIFTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Adams  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

FORTY-SIXTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Webster  and  Adams  and  is  entitled  to  one 
representative. 

FORTY-SEVENTH  DISTRICT . 
Consists   of  the  county  of  Hall  and  is  entitled  to  two  representatives, 

FORTY-EIGHTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Howard  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

FORTY-NINTH  DISTRICT  . 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Garfield,  Greely,  Wheeler,  Lonp,  and  Blaine 
and  the  unorganized  territory  west  of  Blaine  and  is    entitled  to  one  rep- 
resentative. 


APPORTIONMENT.  105 


FIFTIETH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Holt  and  is  entitled  to  two  representatives. 

FIFTY-FIRST  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Brown  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

FIFTY-SECOND  DISTRICT  . 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Cherry  and  Keya  Paha  and   is   entitled  to 
one  representative. 

FIFTY-THIRD  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  counties  of  Sheridan,  Dawes,  Box  Bute,  and  Sioux  and 
is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

FIFTY-FOURTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Lincoln,  Cheyenne,  and  Keith  and  the  un- 
organized territory  west  of  Logan  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 
FIFTY-FIFTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Valley  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

FIFTY-SIXTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  counties  of  Custer  and  Logan  and  are  entitled  to  two  rep- 
resentatives. 

FIFTY-SEVENTH  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  connty  of  Sherman  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

FIFTY-EIGHTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Buffalo  and  is  entitled  to  two  representatives. 

FIFTY-NINTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Dawson  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

SIXTIETH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Kearney  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

SIXTY-FIRST  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Franklin  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

SIXTY-SECOND  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Harlan  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

SIXTY-THIRD  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Phelps  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

SIXTY-FOURTH  DISTRICT. 
Consisis  of  the  county  of  Furnas  and  is  entitled  to  one  representative. 

SIXTY-FIFTH  DISTRICT. 
Consists  of  the  county  of  Red  Willow  and  is  entitled  to  one  represen- 
tative. 

SIXTY-SIXTH  DISTRICT 

Consists  of  the  counties  of  Frontier  and  Gosper  and  is   entitled   to  one 

Representative. 

SIXTY-SEVENTH  DISTRICT. 

Consists  of  the  counties  of  Hitchcock,  Dundy,  Hayes,  and  Chase,  and 
are  entitled  to  one  representative. 


106 


STATE  AND  TERRITORIAL  GOVERNMENT. 


STATE  AND  TERRITORIAL  GOVERNMENT. 

SENATORS    FROM  NEBRASKA   SINCE    THE   ADMISSION   OP 
THE  STATE  INTO  THE  UNION. 


John  M.  Thaver 1867-71 

Thomas  W.  Tipton 1867-75 

Phineas  W.  Hitchcock 1871-77 

Algernon  S.  Paddock 1875-81 

William  V.  Allen 1893-1899 


I  Alvin  Saunders 1877-83 

I  C.  H,  Van  Wyck 1881-87 

!  Chas.  F.  Manderson 1883-95 

I  Algernon  S.  Paddock 1887-93 

I  John  M.  Thurston 1895-1901 


DELEGATES  TO  CONGRESS  FROM  THE  TERRITORY  OF  NE- 
BRASKA. 


Napoleon  B.  Gidding.  .Dec,  12,  1854 

Bird  B.  Chapman Nov.  6,  1855 

Fenner  Ferguson Aug.  3. 1857 


Experience  Estabrook. Oct.  11,1859 

Samuel  G.  Daily Oct.  9, 1860 

Phineas  W.  Hitchcock. Oct.  11, 1864 


REPRESENTATIVES  TO   CONGRESS  'SINCE  THE  ADMISSION 
OF  THE  STATE  INTO  THE  UNION. 


XXXX  Congress,  1865-67. 
T.  M.  Marquett. 

XL  Congress,  1867-69. 
John  Taffe. 

XLI  Congress,  1869-71. 
John  Tafte. 

XLI  I  Congress,  1871-73. 
John  TafFe. 

XLIII  Congress,  1873-75. 
Lorenzo  Crounse, 

XLIV  Congress,  1875-77. 
Lorenzo  Crounse. 

XLV  Congress,  1877-79 
Frank  Welch. 
Thos.  J.  Majors  [to  fill  vacancy.] 

XLVI  Congress,  1879-81. 
E,  K.  Valentine. 

XLVII  Congress,  1881-83. 
E.  K.  Valentine. 

XLVIII  Congress,  1883-85. 

First  District A.  J.  Weaver 

Second  District James  Laird 

Third  District E.  K.  Valentine 


♦To  fill  vacancy  caused  by  the  death 


XLIX  Congress,  1885-87. 

First  District A.  J.  Weaver 

Second  District James  Laird 

Third  District. .  .Geo.  W.  E.  Dorsey 

L  Congress,  1887-89. 

First  District John  A.   McShane 

Second  District James  Laird 

Third  District. .  .Geo.  W.  E.  Dorsey 

LI  Congress,  1889-91. 

First  District W.  J.  Council 

Second  District James  Laird 

Gilbert  L.  Laws* 
Third  District. .  .Geo.  W.  E.  Dorsey 

LII  Congress,  1891-93. 

First  District W.  J.  Bryan 

Second  District., W.  A.  McKeighan 
Third  District O.  M.  Kem 

LIII  Congress,  1893-95 

First  District W.J,  Bryan 

Second  District H,  D.  Mercer 

Third  District Geo,  Meiklejohn 

Fourth  District E,  J.  Hainer 

Fifth  District.  ...W.  A.  McKeighan 

Sixth  District O.  M.  Kem 

of  Congressman  Laird. 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  TERRITORY  AND   STATE  OF   NEBRASKA 
SINCE    ITS  ORGANIZATION. 


GOVERNORS 


Francis  Burt  (a) Oct.  16, 1854 

Mark  W.  Izard Feb.  20, 1855 

W.  A,  Richardson  (6).,. Jan,  12, 1858 

Samuel  W.  Black May  2, 1858 

Alvin  Saunders May  15,  1861 

Dav  id  Butler  (c) Feb.  21, 1867 

Robert  W.  Furnas Jan,  13, 1873 


Silas  Garber Jan.  11, 1875 

Albinus  Nance Jan.  9, 1879 

James  W,  Dawes Jan.  4, 1883 

JohnM.  Thayer Jan.  6,1887 

James  E.  Boyd Jan.  8, 1891 

Lorenzo  Crounse Jan .  13, 1893 

Silas  A,  Holcomb Jan,  3,  1895 


LIEUTENANT  GOVERNORS. 


Othman  A.  Abbott Jan.  4, 1877 

Edmund  C.  Cams Jan.  9, 1879 

A.  W.  Agee Jan.  4, 1883 


H.  H.  Shedd .Jan.  8, 1885 

Geo.  D.  Meiklejohn Jan.  3, 1889 

Thomas  J.  Majors Jan.  6, 1891 


STATE  AND  TEBKITORIAL  GOVERNMENT. 


107 


SECRETARIES  OF  STATE. 


Thos.  B.  Cuming  (e). . .  Aug.  13, 1854 
John  B.  Motley  (/)..  .March  23, 1858 
J.  Sterling  Morton  (gr).. July  12, 1858 
Alg.  S.  Paddoclc  (A). . . .  May  6,  1861 

Thos.  P.  Kennard Feb.  21, 1867 

Wm.  H.  James  (i) Jan.  10,1871 

John  J.  Gosper Jan.  13, 1873 


Bruno  Tzschuck Jan.  11, 1876 

S.  J.  Alexander Jan.  9,  1879 

Edward  P.  Roggen San.  4,  1883 

Gilbert  L.  Laws . .  Jan.  6, 1887 

Ben.  R.  Cowdery  (k). .  .Nov.  20, 1889 
JohnC.  Allen Jan.  8, 1891 


AUDITORS. 


Charles  B.  Smith March  16, 1855 

Samuel  L.  Campbell... Aug.  3. 1857 

William  E.  Moore June  1, 1858 

Robert  C.  Jordan Aug.  2,  1858 

William  E.  Harvey Oct.  8,  1861 

John  Gillespie Oct.  10, 1865 


Jefferson  B.  Weston. . .  Jan.  13, 1873 

F.  W.  Liedtke Jan.  9,  1879 

Joh  n  Wallichs No  v.  12,  1880 

H.  A.  Babcock Jan.  8.  18^5 

Thos.  H.  Benton Jan.  3,  1889 

Eugene  Moore Jan.  13, 1893 


TREASURERS. 


B.  P.  Rankin March  16, 1855 

Wm.  W.Wyman Nov.  6, 1855 

Augustus  Kountze Oct.  8, 1861 

James  Sweet J  an.  11,  1869 

Henry  A.  Koenig Jan.  10, 1871 

J.  C.  McBride Jan.  11, 1875 


Geo.  M.  Bartlett Jan.  9, 1879 

Phelps  D.  Sturdevant. . .  Jan.  4, 1883 

Charles  H.  Willard Jan.  8. 1885 

John  E.  Hill Jan.  3, 1889 

Joseph  S.  Bartley Jan.  13. 1893 


ATTORNEY  GENERAI.S, 


Champion  S.  Chase 1867 

Seth  Robinson 1869 

Geo.  H.  Roberts Jan.  10, 1871 

J.  R.  Webster Jan.  13. 1873 

Geo.  H.  Roberts Jan.  11, 1875 


C.J.  Dilworth Jan.  9, 1879 

Isaac  Powers,  Jr Jan.  4,1883 

William  Leese Jan.  8,  1885 

George  H.  Hastings  (6)..  Jan.  8, 1891 


SUPERINTENDENTS  OF  PUBI.IC  INSTRUCTION. 

W.  W.  W.  Jones Jan.  6, 1881 

Geo.  B.  Lane Jan.  6, 1887 

A.  K.  Goudy Jan.  8, 1891 

COMMISSIONERS  OF  PUBLIC  LANDS  AND  BUILDINGS. 


Seth  W.  Beals 1869 

J.  M.  McKenzie Jan.  10, 1871 

S.  R.  Thompson Jan.  4, 1877 


John  Steen Jan. 

A.  R.  Humphrey Jan. 


F.  M.  Davis Jan.  4, 1877 

A.  G.Kendall Jan. 6, 1881 

Joseph  Scott Jan.  8, 1885 

(a)  Died  Oct.  18, 1854,  the  office  being  filled  by  T.  B.  Cuming,  Secretary, 
until  the  appointment  of  Gov.  Izard. 

(6)  Resigned,  the  office  being  filled  by  J.  Sterling  Morton  until  the  ar- 
rival of  Gov.  Black. 

(c)  Elected  in  1866,  but  did  not  enter  upon  the  duties  of  the  office  until 
the  admission  of  the  state  into  the  Union,  in  Feb.,  1867.  Re-elected  Oct. 
8, 1868.  Re-elected  Oct.  18, 1870.  Succeeded  June  2, 1871,  by  W.  H.  James, 
Secretary  of  State,  until  the  inauguration  of  Gov.  Furnas. 

(e)  Acting  Governor  from  Oct.  18, 1854,  to  Feb.  20, 1855,  and  from  Oct.  25, 
1857,  to  Jan.  12,  1858.    Died  March  12,  1858. 

(/)  Acting  Secretary  until  the  arrival  of  Secretary  J.  Sterling  Morton. 

{g)  Acting  Gov.  from  Dec.  5, 1858.  to  May  2, 1859,  and  from  Feb.  24,  1S60, 
to  1861. 

(h)  Acting  governor  from  May  15, 1861,  and  during  the  greater  portion 
of  the  period  to  1867.    U.  S.  Senator  from  1875  to  1881. 

(i)  Acting  Governor  until  Jan.  13, 1873. 

(fc)  Appointed  by  Gov.  Thayer  to  fill  vacancy  caused  by  resignation  of 
Gilbert  L.  Laws. 


108  8TATE  AND  TERRITORIAL  GOVERNMENT, 

JUDGES  SUPREME  COURT— CHIEF  JUSTICES. 

Fenner  Ferguson Oct.  12, 1854    |    Daniel  Gantt  (a)  Jan.  1,  1872 


Augustus  Hall March  15, 1858 

William  Pitt  Kellogg.  .May  27, 1861 

William  Kellogg May  8,  1865 

William  A.  Little  (a) 1866 

Oliver  P.  Mason 1866 

George  B.  Lake Jan.  16, 1873 


Samuel  Maxwell May  29,  1878 

George  B.  Lake Jan.  5,  1888 

Amasa  Cobb Jan.  3, 1884 

Samuel  Maxwell Jan.  4,  1886 

M.B.Reese Jan.     1888 

Amasa  Cobb .1890 


Samuel  Maxwell,  1892, 
ASSOCIATE  JUSTICES  AND  JUDGES. 


Edward  R.  Harden ....  Dec.  4,  1854 

James  Bradley Oct.  25,  1854 

Samuel  W.  Black 

Eleazer  Wakely April  22, 1857 

.Joseph  Miller April  9,  1859 

William  F.  Lockwood..May  16, 1861 

Elmer  S.  Dundy June  22, 1863 

George  B.  Lake Feb.  21, 1867 

CliERKS  OF  THE  SUPREME  COURT. 


Lorenzo  Crounse Feb.  21, 1867 

Daniel  Gantt Jan.  16  1873 

Samuel  Maxwell Jan.  16, 1873 

Amasa  Cobb May  29, 1878 

M.  B.  Reese Jan.  3,1884 

T.  L.  Norval Jan.     1890 

A.  M.  Post Jan.   1892 


H.  C.  Anderson 1856 

Charles  L.  Salisbury 1858 

E.  B.  Chandler 1859 

John  H.  Kellom 1861 


William  Kellogg,  Jr 1865 

George  Armstrong 1867 

Guy  A.  Brown  (a) Aug.  8. 1868 

D.  A.  Campbell July  14, 1890 


REPORTERS  OF  THE  SUPREME  COURT. 

J.  M.  Woolworth 1878   I   Guy  A.  Brown  (a) 1875 

Lorenzo  Crounse 1873   1   D.  A.  Campbell 1890 

I.IBRARIANS. 


Thos.  P.  Kennard June  22, 1867 

Wm.  H.  Jones Jan.  10,1871 

Guy  A.  Brown March  3, 1871 

D.  A.  Campbell July  14.  1891 


James  S.  Izard March  16, 1855 

H.  C.  Anderson Nov.  6,  1855 

John  H.  Kellon Aug  3. 1857 

Alonzo  D.  Luce Nov.  7, 1859 

Robert  S.  Knox 1861 

(a)  Died  in  ottice. 

PRESIDENTS 
Of  the  Territorial  Council. 

Joseph  L,  Sharp (1st  Session,) .  .1855 

B.  R.  FOLSOM (2d  Session,) 1855 

L.  L.  BOWEN (3d  Session,) 1857 

George  L.  Miller.  . .  (4th  Session,) 1857 

L.  L.  BowEN (5th  Session,) , 1858 

E.  A.  DoNELAN (6th  Session,) 1869 

W.  H.  Taylor (7th  Session,)  1860 

John  Taffe.. (8th  Session,) 1861 

E.  A.  ALLEN (9th  Session,) 1864 

O.  P.  Mason (llth  Session,) 1866 

E.  H.  Rogers (12th  Session,) 1867 

PRESIDENTS 
Of  tlie  f?enate  of  the  State  of  Nebraska. 

Frank  Welsh 1st  Session 1866 

E.  H.  Rogers 2d  Session 1867 

E.  II.  Rogers 3d  Session, 1867 

E.  H.  Rogers 4th  Session 1868 

E.  B.  Taylor 5th  Session, 1869 

E.  B.  Taylor 6th  Session, 1870 


STATE  AND  TERRITORIAL  GOVEREMENT.  109 

E.  B.  Taylor 7th  Session, 1870 

E.  E.  Clnningham nth  Session, 1871 

W.  A.  Gw YER 9th  Session, 187:{ 

W.  A.  GWYER 10th  Session, 1873 

N.  K.  Griggs 11th  Sessson, 1875 

Guy  C.  Barton 12th  Session, 1876 

Guy  C.  Barton 13th  Session 1876 

SPEAKERS 
Of  the  Territorial  House  of  Representatives. 

Andrew  J.  Hanscom 1st  Session, 1855 

P.  C.  Sullivan 2d  Session, .1855 

L.  L.  GiBBS 3rd  Session 1857 

J.  H.  Decker 4th  Session, 1857 

H.  P.  Bennet.  .  - 5th  Session, 1858 

S.  A.  Strickland 6th  Session, 1859 

Henry  W.  De  Puy, 7th  Session, 1860 

A.  D.  Jones 8th  Session, 1861 

Geo.  B.  Lake 9th  Session, 1861 

S.  M.  KiRKPATBiCK 10th  Session, 1805 

James  G.  Megeath 11th  Session, 1866 

VV.  P.  ChapiN 12  Session, 1805 

SPEAKERS 
Of  the  House  of  Kc-preseutatives  of  the  State  of  Nebraska. 

W.  F   Chapin 1st,  2d,  3d,  and  4th  Sessions 1807-68-69 

W.  McLennan 5th,  6th  and  7th  Session 1808-69-70 

Hon.  George  W.  Collins 1871 

HoN.  M.  Sessions 1873 

Hon.  Edward  S.  Towle 1875 

Hon.  Albinus  Nance 1877 

Hon.  C.  p.  Mathewsom 1879 

Hon.  H.  H.  Shedd 1881 

Hon.  Geo.  M.  Humphrey 1883 

Hon.  Allen  W.  Field 1885 

Hon.  N.  V.  Harlan 1887 

HoM.  John  C.  Watson. 1889 

Hon.  S.  M.  Elder 1891 

Hon.  J.  N.  Gaffin 1893 

CHIEF  CLERKS 
Of  the  Territorial  Council. 

G.  L.  Miller 1st  Session, 1855 

E.  G.  Mcneeley 2d  Session 1855 

O.  F.  Lake 3d  Session 1857 

Washburn  Saffobd 4th  Session, 1857 

S.  M.  Cubran 5th  Session, 1858 

S.  M.  CURRAN 6th  Session, 1859 

E.  P.  Brewster 7th  Session, 1860 

R.  W.  Furnas 8th  Session, 1861 

J.  W,  HoLLiNGSHEAD.   9th  Session, 1864 

JOHU  L.  BowEN 10th  Session, 1865 

Wm.  E.  Harvey 11th  Session, 1866 

<).  B.  Hkwett. 12th  Session 1867 


110  STATE  AND  TERRITORIAL  GOVERNMENT. 

SECRETARIES 

Of  the  Senate  of  the  State  of  Nebraska. 

C.  E.  Yost 1st  Session 1866 

0.  B.  Hewett 2d  Session 1867 

L.  L.  HOLBROCK 3rd  Session 1867 

L.  L.  HOLBROCK 4th  Session 1868 

Samuel  M.  Chapman 5th  Session, 1867 

Samuel  M.  Chapman 6th  Session, 1879 

Samuel  M.  Chapman 7lh  Session, 1870 

C.  H.  Walker 8th  Session, 1871 

D.  H.  Wheeler 9th  Session, 1873 

D.  H.  Wheeler 10th  Session, 1873 

D.  H.  Wheeler 11th  Session, 1875 

D.  H.  Wheeler 12th  Sessson,. 1876 

D.  H.  Wheeler 13th  Session 1876 

D.  H.  Wheeler 14th  Session 1877 

Sherwood  Burr 15th  Session, 1879 

Sherwood  Burr 16th  Session, 1881 

Sherwood  Burr 17th  Session, 1882 

Geo,  L.  Brown 18th  Session, 1883 

Sherwood  Burr 19th  Session, 1885 

Walt  M.  Seeley 20th  Session, 1887 

Walt  M.  Seeley 21st  Session 1889 

C.  H.  Pirtle 22d  Session, 1891 

H.  A.  Edwards 23d  Session 189? 

CHIEF  CLERKS 

Of  the  Territorial  House  of  Representatives. 

Joseph  W.  Paddock 1st  Session,. , 1855 

1.  L.  GlBBS 2d  Session 1855 

J.  H.  Brown 3d  Session, 1857 

S.  M.  CURRAN 4th  Session, 1857 

E.  A.  McNeeley 5th  Session 1858 

James  W.  MOore 6th  Session, 1859 

George  L.  Seybolt 7th  Session, 1859 

George  L.  Seybold 8th  Session, 1861 

RiENZi  Streeter 9th  Session, 1864 

JoEN  Taffe 10th  Session, 1865 

George  May 11th  Session, 1866 

J.  S.  Bowen 12th  Session, 1867 

CHIEF  CLERKS 
Of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the  State  of  Nebraska. 

J.  S.  Bowen 1st,  2d,  3d,  4th  and  5th  Sessions 1867-68-69 

C.  H.  Walker 6th  and  7th  Sessions 1870 

F.  M.  McDonah 1871 

Louis  E.  Crospsey 1871 

I.  W.  Eller 1873 

George  L.  Brown 1875 

B.  D.  Slaughter 1877 

B.  D.  Slaughter 1879 

B.  D.  Slaughter 1881 

B.  D.  Slaughter 1883 


STATE  AND  TEKRITORIAI.  GOVERNMENT. 


Ill 


James  F.  Zeidker 1885 

B.  D.  Slaughter 1887 

ti.D.  Slaughter , 1889 

Eftic  Johnson 1891 

Eric  Johnson 1893 

MAKSHAI.S  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES. 

Mark  W.  Izaard Oct.  28,  1854  I    J.  T.  Hoile July  1,  1861 

Eli  R.  Doyle April  7,  1855        William  Daily 1870 

Benjamin  P.  Rankin  March  29, 1856  (    Ellis  Bierbower 1855 

Phineas  W.  Hitchcock  Sept.  19, 1861  |    Brad  D.  Slaughter 1889 

Casper  E.  Yost April  1, 1869  |    F.  E.  White.    1893 

MEMBERS    OF   NEBRASKA   LEGISLATURE,    1855    TQ    ISaS, 
INCLUSIVE. 

Council  and  Senate. 

(Up  to  and  inclusive  of  the  17th  session  each  member  is  credited  with 
the  session  of  which  he  was  a  member.  "T"  standing  for  "Territorial," 
and  "S"  for  "State"  session.  Commencing  wilh  the  18th  session,  18b3, 
each  member  is  credited  with  the  year  he  served.  From  and  after  that 
year  there  were  no  special  sessions.    Ed.) 


names.  Sessions. 

Abbott,  Rufus S.  11,  12, 13 

Albertson,  Isaac T.  10.  11 

Allen,  Edwin  A T.  9,  10, 11 

Allen,  Samuel  S  T.  3,  4 

Ambrose,  Geo.  W S.  14 

Arnold,  E.  W S.  15 

Ashton,  T S.  5,  6,  7 

Aten,  John S.  14 

Babcock,  Wm.  H 1893 

Baird,Cvrus  N S.  14 

Baird,  Harlan 2,  3,  4 

Baker,  Sydney S.  16,  17 

Ballentine,  D.  C S.  16,  17 

Barker,  L.  D 1883 

Barnum,  E .  W S.  9,  10 

Barnum,  Guy  C S.  5, 6,  7, 8, 9 

10,  11,12,13 

Bates,  Barnabas T.  12 

Barnum,  William T.  12 

Bayne,  Oliver  P T .  10, 11 

Bear ,  Alexander S .  11,  12,  13 

Beardsley ,  S .  W 1889 

Beck,  William  B S .  15, 1891 

Belden,  David  D T.  7,  8 

Bennett,  Hiram  P T.  1 

Bennett,  John  B T.  7,8,10,  11 

Birkhouser,  P.  W S.  14,  15 

Blanchard,CarringtonT.  8, 10, 11 

Blanehard,Geo.  F S.  14 

Bomgardner,  D.  D 1883 

Bowen,  A.   S.  9,  10 

Bowen,  L.  L T.  3,  4,  5 

Bonesteel 1887 

Bradford,  A.  A T.  2,3,4 

Bradford,  Henry T.  1,  2 

Brown,  Chas.   H S.  14, 15, 1883 

Brown,  David «.  8 

Brown,  Ezra 1883-5 

Brown,  E.  E  S.  15,1883 

Brown,  J.  Marion 1891 

Brown,  O.  F 1883 

Brown,  Richard T.  1,2 

Brown,  R.  G 1887 

Bryant,  A.  M S.  14 

Buckworth,  A.  D 1885 


NAMES.  SESSONS. 

Bunnell,  A.  T S.  15 

Burnham,  S.  W 1887 

Burns,  J.  F S.  16,  17 

Burns,  Martin S .  16, 17 

Burr,  C.    C S.  11,  12,13 

1885 

Burton,  Geo.  W 1889 

Butler,  David T.  9, 1883 

Cady,  H.  F S.  16,  17 

Cadman,  John S.  1 

Calhoun,  S.  H S.  1 

Calkins,  Elisha  C S.  14 

Calkins,  D.  K 1887 

Campbell,  Jacob  N 1893 

Campbell,  J.  E 1887 

Campbell,  John  C T.  9 

Canneld,  George 1883 

Cams,  Edmund  C S.  14 

Case,  O.  C 1883 

Casper,  C.  D 1887 

Chapin,  Wm.  F S.  5 

Chapman,  John  W. ..  T.  10, 11 
Chapman,  Sam  M S.  11, 12,  13 

14 

Cheever,  John  H T.  5,  6 

Cherry,  A.  B 1885 

Cheney,  M.  B S.  15 

Christofterson,  George  . . .  1891 

Clancy,  William T.  8,4 

Clark,  Chas.  H 1893 

Clarke,  Harry  F 1885 

Clarke,  Henry  T S.  9 

Clark,  Munson  II T.  1 

Clarkson,  J.  T S.  15 

Colby,  Leonard  W S.  14,  1887 

Collins,  George  F 1891 

Collyer,  Thos.  T T.  6 

Conger,  W.  H'. 1887 

Conklin,  A.  M S.  8 

Conner,  A.  H 1883-89 

Coon,  C.  H S.  16,  17 

Cornell,  C.  B 1889 

Correll,  Erasmus  M 1893 

Coulter,  John  F S.  15 

Coulter,  F.  B 1891 


112 


STATE  AND  TERRITORIAL  GOVERNMENT. 


NAMES  SESSIONS 

Coutant,  Charles  K S.  15 

Covell,  George  W S.  14 

Cowles,  Charles  H. . .  .T. .  1,  2 

Crawford,  J.  C S.  9,10,14 

Crawford,  W.  G T.  5 

Cropsey,  A.  J S.  8 

Cunningham,  E.  E....S.  5,6,7,8 

Cuppy,  John  A S.  15 

Daily,  William,  Sr S.  6,  7 

Daily,   William S.  16, 17 

Dale,  Walter  F 1893 

Darner,  J.  H 1893 

Davis,  Jesse  T S.  2,  3,  4 

Dawes,  James  W S.  14 

Day,  C.  A 1885 

Day,T.  J 1891 

Deck,  W.  H 1883 

Dern,  John 1889 

Dillon,  J.  A S.  9,10 

Dinsmore,  J.  B S.  16, 17 

Doane,  George  W T.  5,  6, 12 

S.  16,  17 

Dolan,  J.  W 1883-^ 

Donelan,  E.  A T.  6 

Doom,  James E T.  6,9,12 

S.  2,3,4 

Dorsey,  B.  F H.  15 

Dundy,  E.  8 T.  5,6,7,8 

Dunphy,  R.  E 1883 

Durland,  A.  J 1885 

Duras,  C 1887 

Dye,  William 1883 

Dysart,  William 1891-3 

Eggleston,  G.  W 1891-3 

Einsel,  E.  D 1885 

Elbert,  Samuel  H T.  7 

Erwin,  J.   R S.  16, 17 

Evans,  Arthur  J S.  16,17 

Evans,  John T.  2 

Everett,  Fremont 1893 

Ferguson,  Arthur  N. .  .S.  14 

Fillev,  Elijah 1883 

Filsom.G.  M 18a5 

Fisher,  J.  B S.  11,  12,13 

1883 

Fisher,  T.  R T.  9 

Folsom,  Benjamin  R.  .T.  1,  2 
Freeman,  F.  R T.  12 

S.  2,  3,  4 

Frost,  G.  W S.  5,  6,  7 

Fuller,  Frank 1887 

Fulton,  Samuel  A S.  6,  7 

Funck,  I.  W 1889 

Furnas,  Robert  W T.  3,4,5,6 

Gallagher,  C.  V S.  15 

Gallogly.Jos.  J 1889 

Garfield,  Horace S.  14 

Gere,  C.  H S.  5,6,7,16,17 

Gerrand,  Leander S.  8 

Gilham,  James  S S,  14 

Goehner,  J.  F 1885 

Goss,  John  Q -.T.  7,  8 

Goodwill,  Taylor  G...T.  1,2 
Goodwill,  William  F..S.  5,  6,  7 

Graham,  Alexander 1893 

Graham,  Thomas S.  16,  17 

Grav,  W.  M 1893 

Griffey,  Thomas  E....T.  10,  11 
GriggB,  Nathan  K  ..  ..S.  9,  10,  11 


NAMES  SESSIONS 

12,13 

Grimm,  J.  H S.  15 

Gwyer,  William  A S.  9, 10 

Hahn,  Leopold 1893 

Hale,    F 1893 

Hanna,  K S.  1 

Harrington ,  D .  B S .  16, 17 

Harris,  James  E 1893 

Hascall,  Isaac  S. ..... .S.  2,  3,  4,  8 

Hastings,  W.  G 1885 

Hathaway,  H.   D S.  5,  6,  7 

Harris,  C.  L 1883 

Harrison,  T.  O.  C 1883 

Hawke,  Robert S.  8 

Hayden,  D.  T S.  15 

Hayes,  S.  \\ S.  9,10,14 

Heartwell,  J.  B 1887 

Heist,  Geo.  W 1883 

Higgins,  J.  M 1887 

Higgins,  P.  M 1887 

Hill,  .1.  F 1891 

Hilton,  B.  F S.  8 

Hinman,  Beach  I S.  14 

Hoebvl,  Louis 1885 

Holden,  Oscar S.  2,3,4 

Holliday,  Andrew  S. .  .T.  10, 11 

Holmes,  C.  A 1887 

Holt,  John  W S.  14 

Hoover,  John  S 1889 

Horn,  Valentine 1891 

Howe,  Church S.  14,15 

1887-89 

Howe,  John  D S.  16.17 

Howell,  M 1883-5 

Hoyt,  T.  C S.  11,12.13 

Kurd,  L.  G 1889 

Hvers,  Robert 1885 

Ijams,  Wm.  H 1889 

Jackson,  A.  H T.  9 

Jewett,  G.H S.  15 

Jewett,  L.  H 1889 

Johnson,  L.  L 1893 

Jones,  A.  D T.  1,2 

Keckley.C.R 1889 

Keiper,  George  F 1891 

Kent,L.  H 1889 

Kennard,  Thomas  P. .  .S.  14 

Kennedy,  B .  E .  B T.  10, 11 

Kimball,  W.  F S.  15 

Kinkald,  M.  P 1883 

Kirkpatrick,  S.  M T.  2,  3,  4,  8 

Knapp.-W.  M S.  14 

Koontz,  Jasper  N 1891 

Krummer,  V. .  S.  1 

Lancaster,  J.  E S.  11,12,13 

Leach,  David S.  1 

Lewis,  T.  L 1885 

I^y,  Lewis S.  15 

Lindsav,  J.  P 1887-9 

Lininger,  G.  W ..  1887 

Linn,  J.  L 1887-9 

Little,  Wm.  A T.  6,7,8,9 

Lobeck,  C.  0 1893 

Love,  E.M 1885 

Lowley,  G.  W 1893 

Lyon,  Waldo S.  11, 12, 13 

Maher.  Michael 1891 

Majors,  Thomas  J T.  12,  S.  2,  ? 

4,  5, 1887 


STATE  AND  TERRITORIAL  GOVERNMENT. 


113 


NAMES  SESSIONS 

Manning,  J.  R 1889 

Marquett,T.  M T.  7,8,9 

Marshall,  William S.  15 

Mason,  O.  P T.  9, 10, 11 

Mattes,  John,  Jr 1891-3 

McAllister,  W.  A 1885 

McCarty,  T.  F 1893 

McCasland,  J.N T .  10, 11 

McCormick,  John T.  9 

McDonald,  B.  F 1893 

McDonald,  Charles. . .  .T.  3,  4 

McMeans,  J .  S S .  15 

McNamer,  C.  W 1887 

McPherson,  John T.  8 

McShane,  John  A 1883-5 

Megeath,  James  G S.  1 

Meiklejohn,  G.  D 1885 

Metz,  Frederick S.  8 

Metz,  Fred 1885 

Michener,  N.  S 1891 

Miller,  George  L T .  3,  4,  5,  6 

Miller,  James  P 1893 

Miller,  J.  G T.  10, 11 

Mills,  M.  A 1885 

Mitchell,  James  C T.  1,  2 

Moore,  William  E T.  5 

Moore,  R.  E 1887-91-3 

Morse,  W.  R S.  16,  17 

Mullen,  J.  P 1893 

Mvers,  John  C S.  16,17 

Neligh,  JohnD T.  12 

Nesbit,  J.  T 1889 

Norris,C.  H 1885 

Norris,  W.  P 8.  18,  1883 

North,  J.  E S.    14,1893 

Norval,T.  L S.  15 

Norval,  R.  S 1889 

Nuckolls,  Lafayette,.. T.  1 

Osborn,  L.  W S.  9, 10 

Otterstein,  Ludwig  ...S.  15 

Packwood,  Samuel 1893 

Patrick,  J.  N.  H S.2,  3,  4 

Patterson,  J .  M 1883 

Paul,  J.  N 1885 

Paulsen,  J.T 1889 

Paxton,  William 1889 

Pepoon,  T.  W S.  14 

Perkins,  J.  W S.  16,17 

Perkev,  H.  D S.  11,12,13 

Pickett,  T.  J.,Jr 1889 

Fierce,  C.  W S.  16,17 

Polk,  M.  D 1889 

Pope,  John  D 1889 

Porter,  John  R S.  5,6,  9,10 

11 

Porter,  Nathan  S  S.  1,  5.  6,  7 

Pottinger,  William  ...S.8 

Pound,  S.  B 8.  9,  10 

Powers,  Isaac,  Jr 8.  14,  15,  16 

Povnter,  W .  A  1891 

Presson,  William  A...T.  12 

8.  2,  3,4 

Puett,  A.  W T.  3,  4 

Putnam,  F.C 1885 

Randall,  H.L 1891 

Ransom,  F.  F 1889 

Raymond,  I.  M 1889 

Reavis,  Isham 8.5 


NAMES  SESSIONS 

Reed,  Eugene  L S.  6,  7 

Reeves,  Mills  S T.  3,  4,  5 

6,12 
8.  2,3,4 

Reynolds,  8.  8 1883 

Rich,H.  M 1883 

Rich,  S.  M 8.  1 

Richardson,  O.  D T.  1,2 

Robinson,  J .  C 1889 

Roche,  J.  » 1889 

Rogers,  E.  H S.  2,3,4 

Rogers,  Josiah 1883 

Rogers,  Samuel  E T.  1,  2,  3,  4 

Bobbins,  A.  M 1887 

Rustin,C.  B 8.  11,12,13 

Saftord,  Jacob T .  3,  4 

Salesbury,  A.  F T.  3,  4 

Sanders,  W.  A 1891-3 

Sang,  Charles 1883 

Sap.W.  F T.  8 

Schminke,  Paul 1887 

Schcenheit,  Aug 1883 

Schram,  Sidney 1891 

Scott,  A.  R.. 1893 

Scott,  George  E T.  5,  6 

Scott,  W.  D 8.  9,  10 

Scoville,  D.  A 8.  15, 

Seaman,  John  1> 

Shanner,  L.    T 1889 

Sharp,  Joseph   L T.   1,2 

Shea,  John  C 1891 

Sheldon,  Lawson T.  12, 

2,  3, 4,  8 

Shervin,    John 1885-87 

Shook,  George  R S     9,10 

Shumway,  H .   P 1891 

Skinner,  J.  B 1885 

Smith,    Alva 1885 

Smith,  B.  K S.  16,  17 

Smith,  G.  N 1891-3 

Smith,  H.  L. 1885 

Snell,  W.  H 1885 

Snell,  D.  H. 1887 

Sowers,  A.  H 1883-85 

Spann,  J.  8 S.  11,  12, 13 

Spencer,  John  T 1885 

Sprick,   Henry 1887 

Starbuck,   Jesse 1891 

Sterling,  J.  H 1887 

Stevens,  J.   K 1891 

Stephenson,  Oliver 8.  1 

Stewart,  A.  S T.  12,  8.  1 

Stewart,  H.G 1893 

Strickland,  Silas  A..   .T.  7 
Stevenson,  Thomas  B.'.S.  5,  6  7 

Stone,  George  A 8.  15 

SuUenberger,  O.  P S.  15 

Sutherland,  J .    R 1889 

Switzler,   Warren 1891 

Tatte,  John T.  7,  8 

Taggart,  F.    D 1889 

Tavlor,  E.  B S.  5,6,7 

Taylor,  8.  B  S.  16,  17 

Taylor,  u  illiam  II ...  .T.  5.  6, 7,  8 

Taylor,  W.   M 1891 

Tefft,  Orlando S.  15, 16, 17, 

1893 

Tennant,  A.  W 8.  8 

Thatch,  8.  H 1883 


114 


STATE  AND  TEEBITOKIAL  GOVKKNMKNT. 


NAMES.  SESSIONS. 

Thayer,  John  M T.  7 

Thomas,  E.  W S.  8 

Thomas,  S.    L 1891 

Thomsen,  John 1893 

Thummel,  George  H  .  .S.  14 

TiptonT.  W T.  7 

Tisdale,  D.  A S.  1 

Tzschuck,  Bruno 1887 

Tucker,  Geo.  P S  8 

Turk,  W.    W S.  16,  17 

Turner,  M.  K S.  16,  17 

Turner,  Edward 1891 

Unthank,  John  A T.  7,  8 

Vandemark,  j .    K 1887 

Van  Housen,  J.  C 1891 

Van  Wyek,  Chas.  H. .  .S.  14, 15, 16 
17 

Walker,  P.  H 1883 

Walton,  W.    C S.  14 


NAMES.  SESSIONS. 

Warden,  W.  W T.  12 

S.  2,3,4 

Warner,  C  A 1891 

Welch.  Frank T.  9  SI 

Wells,  H.M S.  16,17 

Wetherald,  F.   W 1889 

Wigton,  A.   L S.  15 

Wilber,  M.    C S.  1 

Wilcox,  M.  AV S.  14 

Williams,  C.  W 1891 

Wilson,  O S.  9, 10 

Wilson  W.  W 1891 

Wherry,  Robert  A S.  16, 17 

White  C.  C S.  16,17, 

Wolbach,  J.  N 1887-8' 

Woods,  L.  H .1891 

Wright,  C.  J 1887 

Young,  Lewis  W 1893 

Zehrung,  Henry S.  16, 17 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES. 


NAMES.  SESSIONS. 

Abbe,  Joshua  G T.  4 

Abbott,  L.  J T.  12 

Abbott,  N .  C 8.  16,  17 

Abel,   Anton 1883 

Abrahamson,  Oito 1887-89 

Acton,  A.  M T.  7 

Adams,  John  M 1885 

.\dams,  Thuman  H T    6 

Agee.  Alfred  W 1887 

Ahmanson,  John S.  8 

Aikin,  Relzy  M 1885-7 

Albert,  Henry 1891 

Alden,  J.  M 1891 

Allen,  Cyrus S.  14 

Allen,  E.  A T.  8 

Alexander,  Thos.  J 1887 

Allgewahr,  L T.  8,9 

Ames,  George  W 1893 

Ames,  W.R 1891 

Anderson,   D.  M T.  12 

S.  1,2,3,  4 

Auvierson.  Nils S.  17 

Andrews.  Henry  C 1887 

Andres,  Phillip 1887 

Anyan,  William S.  14 

Armitage,  H .  G 1883 

Armstrong    CJeo T .  3,  4 

Arnold,  Anselm T.   1 

Arnold  A,  J 8.  9,  10 

Arnold,  Edward  W. . .  .8.  1 

Arnold   Edward 1891 

Arnold,  Joseph T.  11 

Ashburn,  DP 8.  9,  10 

Ashby,  Thomas  F' 1883 

Austin     Benjamin T .  11 

Ayer,  Simon  C 8.  16,  17 

Babcoek,  A.  H 8.  9, 10 

Babcock,  C.  F 1883 

Babcook,N.  8 8.  16,  17 

Babcock,  Oscar 8.  15 

Babcock,  Walter  E 1887 

Bain,  Alexander T.  6 

Bailey,  J.  B 8.  16, 17 

Bailey,  Stephen  M 1885 

Bailey,  Orestus  G 

Baird,  Harlan 1887 


NAMES.  SESSIONS. 

Baker,  Alexander  H. .  .8.  11, 12,  13 
14 

Baker,  John  B T.  6,  7 

Baker,  Sidney 8.  15 

Baker,  William T .  12 

8.  2,3,4 

Baker,  B.  8 1889 

Baldwin,  A.  S 8.16,17 

Ballard,  Jno.  R 1887-89 

Baltzlev,  O .  W 8 .  3,  4,  9, 10 

Barker,' A.  H 8.  1 

Barker,  S 8.  14 

Barnard,  E.  H T.  8  8.  5 

Barnard,  Richard T.  6 

Barnard,  Samuel 8 .  15 

Barnes,  ./ .  B 8.  9, 10 

Barnes,  John  W 8.11,12,13 

Barney,  Reuben  E 1885 

Barnum,GuyC T.  10, 11 

S.  14 

Barnum,  E.  W T.  7,8 

Barrett,  ..ames T.  7 

Barrett,  Jacol>  II 1887 

Barrows,  B.  H 8.  11,  12,  13 

Barrv,  Patrick  H 1893 

Bartholemew,  H.  C 1891        ' 

Bartlett,  E.   M S.  16,17 

Bartlett,  W.  R 8.9,10 

Barton,  Lewis 1893 

Bassett,  Samuel  C 1885 

Bates,  Barnabas T .  6,  8 

Batty,  R.  A 8.  15 

Baumer,  John 8.  11. 12, 13 

Beal,  Charles  W 1893 

Beall,  Enos T.  8  8.  8 

Beall,  Seth  W ..8.  11,12,13 

Beardsley,  J.  M 8.  1 

Beane,  George T .  14 

Bear,  Alexander....... 8.  14 

Beck,  William  B T.  2,  4 

Becker,  .John  P T.  9 

Beckman,  Henry 1889 

Beel)e,  Henrv S.  3,4 

Belden,  David  D T.  6 

Belden,  N.  8 8.  14 

Bell.T.  R 8.  1 


STATE  AND  TERRITORIAL  GOVERNMENT. 


llo 


NAMES  SESSIONS 

Benedict,  Albert  J....T.  4 

Bennet,  Gideon T .  1 

Bennet,  H.  P ..T.  5 

Bennett,  J.  B S.  3,4 

Bennett,  Lewis  M S .  15 

Benter,  John T.  10 

Bentley,  Wni .  G 1887 

Berkley,  H 1883 

Berlin,  R.  H 1889 

Berry,  E .  M 1889 

Bertrand,  George  E 1891 

Bick,   H S.  16,  17  1887 

Biekley,  Wm.  M 1885 

Bierbower,   V 1883 

Biggs,  John T.  10 

Birchfield,  W.   P T.  8 

Bisbee,  N.  B 1889 

Blaco,  Richard 1885 

Blackmore,  Thomas. .  .S.  14 

Blaine,  Win .  H 1885 

Blakelv,  Nathan T.  8 

S.  1,5 

Blanchard,  C T.  9 

Blodgett,  Charles S .  9, 10 

Bobbit,  U.  N S.  14 

•Boggs,  L.  B S.  14 

Bohacek.Wm 1889 

Bolin,  Henry S.  16,  17  1887 

Booth,  James 1885 

Bortis,  C.  W S.  121889 

Bowen,  John  S T.  6,  8 

Bowen,  Leavitt  H. . .     T.  2 

Bowman,  Geo.  G 1887 

Boulware,  John T.  2 

Boyd,  James  E S.  1 

Bradlev,  A.  H 8.  15 

Bramble,  D.  T T.  5 

lirandt,  William,  Jr 1885 

Brancht,  II .  G 1889 

Bredeson,  Ole 1891 

Breen,  Joseph  J 1891 

Bremen,  M.  W T.    9 

Brennan,  J.  C 1891 

Brewer,  Wells, S.  5,  6,  7 

Brewster,  Sardins  C. .  .8.  5,  6,  7 

Briggs,  A.    0 8.  8 

Briggs,  Clinton T.  5 

Brink,  A.  P 1889 

Britton,  James 1883 

Broad  head,  Wm.  H. .  .T.  6 

Broatch,  W.  J 8.  16,17 

Broekman,  John  M.   .    ..1893 

Brown,  Charles  H T.  10, 11 

Brown,  D 1883 

Brown,  Daniel  J 1893 

hrown,  Geo.  W 8.  16,  17 

Brown,  J.  L 8.  9,  10.  11 

12,  13 

Brown  Wm.  W 1887 

Brownlee,  R  D 8.  15 

Bruce,  G.  L 8.  15 

Brunner,  Thomas  C. .  .8.  1885 

Bruno,  Henrv  O 8.  14 

Brush,  Marcus  .   T.  11 

8.  5,  67 

Buchanan,  W ..T.  8 

Bnck,.lohnF T.  2 

BuHington,  Joseph  R. . . .  1885 
Burl)ank,  J.  Edward.. T   6 


NAMES  SESSIONS 

Burkley,  V 8.  1 

Burling,  T.  R S.  15 

Burn  ham,  Sumner  W...  1885 

Burnham,  A.J 1889 

Burns,  Joseph  1893 

Burns,  Wm.  H  S.  15 

Bur tch,  George  L S .  9, 10 

Burtch,  8.  F S.  14 

Bush,  A.  A....  ••••.... 8.  14 

Bush,  G.  H 8.  15 

Butler,  David T.  8 

Butler,  John  R T.  11, 12 

S.  2,  3,  4 

Byers,  Wm.  M T.  1 

Cadman,  John T.  10. 11 

8.  2,4,14 

Cady,  A.  E 1889 

Cain,  J.  B 1893 

Caldwell,  J.  L 1889 

Cameron,  M 1889 

Campbell,  M.  8 8.  8 

Cannot,  J.  T S.  8 

Cannon  8amuel  8 1887 

Caution,  J.  R 8.  16,17 

Capek,  Thomas 1891 

Carder,  W.  W 8.  15 

Card  well,    ames  A T.  3 

Carman.  A  A 8.16,17 

Carnaby ,  William 1893 

Carpenter,  G  J 1893 

Carpenter,  Robert  1891 

Carter,  8amuel 8 .  6,7 

Case,  J.  H 8.  16,  17 

Casper,  Charles  E 1885 

Casper,  CD 1893 

Cassell,  John T.  5 

Castle,  G  H 1883 

Cavins,  Adin  G T.  7 

Chaddoek,  Luther 8.  17 

Chalfant.    ames T;  8 

Chambers,  B .  F S.  11, 12,  13 

Chambers,  Samuel  A.T.  2,  3,  4 

Champlin,  L .  C S.  14 

Chapin,C.  C 1883 

Chapin,  William  F...  T.  811,12 

8.  1,2,3,  4 

Chapman  J.  W T.  9 

Chapman,  T.  P 8.  11,  12, 13 

Charlston,  CO 1883 

Chase,  Amos  8 T.  7 

Chase,  John  N 8.  5  6,  7 

Chase,  J.  O 8.  14 

Childs,  E.  P T.  12 

Christopherson,  J 1883 

Christy,  Hal 1889 

Christy,  S.W 1889 

Church,  Jarvis  8 8.5,6,7 

Clancy,  William T.  1.  2 

Clapp,  Hammond 1891 

Clark,  A.  F 1883 

Clark,  Elam 8.  8 

Clarke,  E.  L T.ll,  12 

S.  2,3,4 

Clark.    II.    G..   1883 

Clark,    .lames 8.8 

Clark,  Loran 8.11,12  13 

14 

Clark,  M.  F T,  5 

Clark,  Merrills  H T,  7,  8 


116 


STATE  AND  TERRITORIAL  GOVERNMENT. 


NAMES.  SESSIONS. 

Clark,  T.  S S,  15 

Clarke,   Henry  T T,  8 

Clays,  George T,  4,  5 

Celburne,  Wm T,  7 

Chilcott,  George  M T,  3 

Closser,  J T,  8 

Cody,  Milo  K T,  10 

Cole,   Albert  V 1885-87 

Cole,  Broad T,  3 

Cole,  Charles S,  16, 17 

Cole,  D T,  12 

S,2,  3,  4. 

Cole.  J.  M 1883 

Coleman,  Thomas T,  7 

Coleman,    A 1889 

Coleman,  J  M 1889 

Colpetzer,  Frank 1883 

Collier,  David  L S.  5  6 

Collins,  Geo.  W S.  8 

Collins,  J.  S 1883 

Collins,  Thomas  J S .  2,  3,  4 

CollinsW  1889 

Colton,Geo.  R 1893 

Conger,  J  W S.  8 

Conger,    Wm.   H 1885 

Conner,  W  T.  3 

Conoyer,  Charles  M. .  .T.  10 

Cook,    J.    M T.  16,  17  1883 

Cook,  W.    L 1883 

Cooley,  Alfred  S 1893 

Cope,  James  A 1885-87 

Cooper,  Paris  G T.  4,  5 

Corbin,  O.    A 1889 

Cornelius,   George 1885 

Cornish.  A.  J 1891-93 

Corr,  Thomas 1885 

Correll,  Erasmus  M. .  .S.  16-17 

Cottrell,  M.  S T.  7 

Cowles,  H.  C T.  8 

Cowles,  Charles  H . . .   .  T .  7 

Cowles,  James  H T.  1 

Cox,  Joshua 1883-85 

Craig,  William  S 1887 

Crane,  Morgan 1887 

Crane,  Thomas  D 1893 

Cramer,  J.  E S.  9,  10 

Cranch,  J.O 1891 

Crawford,  Geo.  N T.  12 

S.  2,  3.  4 

Crawford,  James 1885 

Crawtord,  J  .  C S.  11,  12, 13 

Crawford,  Wm .    G 

Creighton,  Jas S.  14 

Critchfield,  A.  J T.  12  S.I 

Cromwell,  A.  F T.  3.4 

Crook,   Wm.    H 1885 

Cross.  George 1893 

Crothers,  John T.  8 

Crouch,  Mason T.  10 

Crowe,  George T.  6,  8,  10,  12 

S.  2'3,  4,  5 

Croxton,     .  H T.  8 

Cruzen,  A.  .R 1889 

Cunningham,    Benj..S.  1 

Curran,  S.  M  T.  12 

Curtis,  Chas.  W 1891 

tju.-tis.  William S.  15 

t  -.i.M.g,  R.  C 1889 


NAMES.  SESSIONS. 

Dailey,  R.  B S.  16,17 

Daily,  S.G T.  5 

Daily,  William T .  12  S  2 ,3,4,8 

Daly,  R.  N S.  15 

Dash,  Joseph T.  9 

Davenport,   H.    H 1883 

Davies,  John  A 1893 

Davis,    Alexander T.  2 

Davis,  C.    D T.  5 

Davis,  F.    E S.  15 

Davis,  James  H S.  15 

Davis,  Oscar  F T.  8 

Davis,   Thomas T.  1 

Davis,  Wm.    R T.  5,  6,  7 

Davidson,  Fleming..  .T.  1 

Davidson,  James T.  4,  7 

S.  11,  12,13 

Dawson,  John 1883 

Dean,  A.  C T.  5 

Decb,  William  H S.  9,10 

Decker,  F 1891 

Decker,  James  H. . .   .T.  1,  2,  4 

Delaney,  M .  C 1889 

Dempster,  P.   J S.  15  1885 

Dempster,  Jno .    A 1887-89 

Denman,  Z.  H 1883 

Denman,  H.  C 1889 

Denton,  W.  A S.  1 

DePuy,  Henry  W T.  5,7 

Dew,J.S S.  16,  17  1893 

Deweese,  J.  M T .  12 

S    1  2  3  4 

Dickerson,  Albert '.  1891-93 

Dickinson,  John  W 1887-89 

Diller,  William  H 1887-89 

Dillon,  W.  E S.  8 

Dimmick,  J.  M 1893 

Dobson,  Richard 1891-93 

Dodd,  J.    F 1883 

Dodge,  G.  M S.  15 

Dodge,  Hugh  L S.  9, 10 

Donelan,E.   A T.  4 

Doolittle,  W.    H S.  14 

Doom,  James    E S.  8 

Doom,  R.  G T.  5 

Dorsey,  Charles  G. . .  T.  9 

Dorsey,  J.  E T.  12 

Downs,  H.  P T.  3,7 

Dowtv,  J.    R S.  16,17 

Doyle",  EUR T.  1 

Draper'  D.  S 1883 

Draper,  H.  T S.  15 

Draper,  Solomon 1883 

Drexel,  Frederick. ..  .T.  11 

Dubv.    Charles S9 

Dudley,  Erwin  G S.  9, 10 

Duerfeldt,   Custavus.  .T.  12 

S.  2,  3,  4 

Duggan,  Daniel T.  12 

Dunn,   Francis 1891 

Dunn,  W.  J 1889 

Dunham,  Martin     ...  .8.  2,  3,  4,  9,10 
Dunning,  Oliver  W...T.  10 

Dyson,  J T.  3 

Eberman,  Joseph  H 1885 

Edwards,   Jonathan  ..S.  6 

Eggleston,  Geo.  W 1887 

Eickhoff,  Arnold 1893 

Eickenbury,   S T.  8 


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117 


NAMES  SESSIONS 

Eisley,  Charles T.  11 

Eiseley  C.    F S.  14, 15, 1887 

Hlder,  S.  M 1891-93 

Elliott,  Allen 1889 

Ellis,  EnosE 1893 

Elliott,  J.  B S.  14 

Ellis,  J.  E T.  3 

Ellis,  Chas.   C 1887 

Eli,  W.   H T.  10 

Emerson,  Charles  D....  1885 

Emery,  E    L T.  10 

Englehardt,  F.  W S,  15 

Enyart,  Logan 8.  9,  10,  11,12 

13 

Evans,  C.  B S.  5 

Evans,  J T.  9 

Everett,  Benaiah  W 1885 

Everett,  Fremont 1889 

Ewan,  J.  G S.  14 

Ewing,  J.  S T.  8 

Ewing,  James 1887 

Fablinger,  George 1883 

Fairbrother.George  W  T.  9  S  1 

Farley,  H.  W S.  11, 12, 13 

Farley,  J.  J 1889 

Farnsworth,  J .  B 1893 

Farrell,  John 1893 

Faxon,  J.  W 1891 

Fee  J.  R 1891 

Feeno,  S.  B 1889 

Feichtinger,  Chas 1891 

Felker.W.S 1891 

Felton,  G.  A 1891-93 

Fenton,  Wm 1887-89 

Fenton,  Jerry S.  15 

Ferguson,  George S.  15 

Field,  Allen  W 1883-85 

Fieldgrove,  Henry 1889 

Filley,  Elijah S.  16,17 

Finnev,  John T.  3 

Finney,  Wm.  A T.  1,  2,  3 

Fisher,  Henry S .  11, 12, 13 

Fisher,  H.  A S.  15 

Fisher,  J.  O T.  9 

Fisher,  Thos.  R T.  7 

Fitchie,  James S.  5,  6,  7 

Fitzpatrick,  W.  W 8.  14 

Flamme,  William 1891 

Fleming,  William  C..T.  5 

Folda,  Frank S.  11, 12, 13 

Ford,  Pat  H  1891 

Ford,  Philo 1893 

Fowler,  E.    W T.  7 

Fox,  Joseph S.  5,  6,  7 

Fox,  Geo.  W 1887 

Frady,  C.   H S.  14 

Franse,  T.  M S.  16, 17, 1885 

Frantz,  M.    F 1887 

Frazier   Kelly S.  1 

Frederick,    J.F S.15, 16, 17 

Freeburn,  William 1883 

French,  H.  A S.  15 

Frerichs,  John 8.  14 

Fried,  William 8.  16, 17 

Frost,  G.W T.  12 

8.  2,  3,  4 

Frost,   Wm.8 1891 

Fuchs,  John  W 1887 

Fuller.  A.  B T.  12 


NAMES  SESSIONS 

8.  2,3,4 

Fuller,  Jno.  N 1887 

Fuller,  F.  W 1889 

Fulton,  Samuel 1891-93 

Furav,  John  B 8.  5 

Gaffin,  J.  N 1891-93 

Gatlbrd,  Chas.   C 1887 

Gale,  A.  H 1891 

GaIey,S.  B 8.  8 

Gamble,  Jas.B 8.  10 

Gantt,    Daniel T.  9 

Garber,  Silas 8.  9,10 

Gardner,  JohnathanFS.  5,  6,  7 

Gardner,  W .   A 1889-91 

G  irvey.  Patrick 1887 

Gasmann,  F.  W 8.  15 

Gates,    Amos T.  4,7  9,  10 

8 .  15, 16,  17 
1889 

Gaylord,  E.  8 8.11,12,13 

Gaylord,  R.  E 8.  15 

Gere,  C.  H 8.  1 

Gerdis.  W 8.  15 

Gerdes,  H 1891-93 

Gibbs,  I.  L T.  3 

Gibson, J.   8 8.  14,  15 

Gibson,  Thomas T.  2 

Gittbrd,  Wm 1891-93 

Gilbert,  J.    W S.  15 

Gilbert,  A.  E 1889 

Gilchrist,  L.W 1889 

Gill,  David 1885 

Gillillan,  John  J 1891 

Gillman,  J.  D 8.  14 

Gillmore,  James  A T.  11 

Gilmore,  Joe.  C. 1887 

Gilmour,  William. . .  .T.  7 
Glasgow,   William  G.. 8.  1 

Glenn,  Robert  A 1885 

Goddard  Samuel 1891 

Goldsmith,  Bennett 1893 

Goodin,  Isaac 8.  8 

Goodman,  Chas.  F  ...  .S.  9,  10 

Gordon,    H 1883 

Goshen,  Chas.  A T.  6 

Goss,  Chas.   T 1893 

Goss,T.8 1893 

Gow,  James 1883 

Goyer,  Alfred  D T.  1 

Graham,  Robert  B. . .  .8.  16 

Grammer.  Chas 1893 

Graver,  Wm 1883 

Graves,  John 8.  1 

Graves,  J.  G 8.  2,  3,  4 

Graves,  J.    R T.  12 

Gray,  A.  W T.  12  8.  1 

Gray,  F.  W 1883 

Gray,  W.B S.  16 

Graybill,  R.  W 8.  15 

Grebe,  Henry T.  7.  9 

Green,  John T.  11 

Green,  Samuel  L 1887 

Green,  O.    E 1889 

Gregory,  John  8.  Jr. .  .T.  9 

Griffin,  Joel T.  7,8,  8.  2.3 

4,  5,  6,  7 

Griffing,  Geo.    L T.  9 

Griffith,  W.  C 8.  14 

Griffith,    Peter 1893 


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STATE  AND  TERRITOBIAL  GOVERNMENT. 


NAMES  SESSIONS 

Crimes,  II.  M..., S.  18 

(irinnell,  Edwin  L. . .  .S.  8 

(Jritistead,  R.  E 1883 

(irout,  A.   P 1883 

Clumser,  Alfred  W 1885 

(iunnett,  I.  M 1891 

Gwyer,  Win.  A T.  5 

Hacker,  Jonas T.  7 

Ilagamon,  Robert  M.  .T.  8 
llagood,  John  McF. .  .T.  2,  3,  4,  5,  6 
7 

Haiin,  Leopold S.  2  1889 

Hail,  William  B T.  1,  2,  3,  4 

Haldeman,  W.   J S.  14 

Hall,  Edward  J 1891 

Hall,  G.  A T.  10 

Jiall,  George  A S.  4 

irall,  James S.  16,  17,  1883 

Hall,  Patrick  J 1885 

Hall,  Thomas  F S.  8 

Hall,  Wm.  B T.  5 

Ilall.C.  L 1889 

Haller,  William   D 1893 

Hamilton,  W.   R S.  1 

liampton,  I.   B 1889 

Hanna,  J.  R 1889 

Hanscon,  Andrew  J.  .T.  1,  3  6 

Hanson,   Robert S.  15 

Hanson,  Jas 1889 

Hardenberg.  E .  II. . .  .T.  12  S  2 

Harding,  W.  A 1889 

Hare,  Thomas  R T.  2 

Harlan,  Nathan  V 1885-87 

Harmon,  Frank  P 1893 

Harrington,  W 1883 

Harsh,   Levi T.  2 

Harrison,  Chas.  J 1887 

Harrison.  Peter S.  14 

Harvey,  A.  E S.  14 

Harvey,  Augustus  F.  .T.  12 

S.  2,3.4 
Hastings,  Alfred  G. . .  .8.  11, 12, 13 
Hastings  George  II. . .  .S.  11,  12, 13 

Hatch,  W.  I) 1883 

Hathaway,  H.  D S.  1 

Haben,  H.  H 1883 

Hayden,  Ben .   H i887 

Hayden  C.  M S.  11,12,13 

Hays,  C.   W S.  17 

Haywood  C.  F T.  1,  2,  3,  4 

Hazen,  Solon  M 1885 

Heacock,  P.  S S.  1(5,  17 

Ilealey,  Thomas  A S.  14 

Heath,  E.  L 1891 

Heath  II. H T.  11 

Heaton,  Isaac  E T.  9 

Hedde,  Frederick T.  7 

Hedges,  Rochester T.  10 

Heimrod,  Geo 1887 

Heinrich,  John 1885 

Helferman,  John T.  10 

Hetterman,  S.  C S.  14 

llelmer,  Louis S.  11,12,  13 

Helms,  John  H S.  16,  17, 

HendershotF.   J S.  11,  12  13 

Heimick,  C     W 1891 

Henry,  David  P 1887 

Henry,  H.  R 1891-93 

Herman,  L.  J 1891 


NAMES  SESSIONS 

Herman,  S.  J S.  16,17 

Hicklin,  Wm.  M T.  12  S.  3,  4 

Hickman  Wm S .  15 

Hinds,  L.  B 1893 

Higgins,  James  M     1885 

Higglns.  W    P 1893 

Hinsdale,  Geo    A T   6 

Hitchcock,  H .  M T.  10 

Hill  J.  S 1889 

Hill,  W.  C 1889 

Hinkle,  H.  S 1891 

Hoback,  R.  D T.  9 

Hobbs,  D T.  9 

Hocknell,  George 1885 

Hoebel,  Louis 1883 

Hoile,  Joseph  T T.  12 

S.  1,  2,  3,  4,  5 

Holcomb.  H S.  9,  10 

Holladay,  A.  S T.  8 

HoUaday,  C.   T T.  3,4 

Hollman,  Jos S.  16, 17, 18815 

Holmes,  Chas     A S .  II,  12,  13 

Holmes,  Edward  P 1885 

Holsworth,  William. .   . .  1885 

Holt,  Frank  H 18*5 

Homer  J.  C 1883 

Hooper,   Edward 1889 

Hoover,  Jerome T.  2 

Hoover,  J.  T.  A....   ..T.  10 

Horst  George 1887-93 

Home,   0 1889 

Hostetter,  Chris S.  16, 17 

Howard,  Ezra  E 1883 

Howard,  L.  M S.  9,10 

Howe,  Church S.  11, 12, 13- 

16, 18,  1891-93 

Hudson  H     J S.  8 

Hullihen,  T.  G 8    14 

Huff,  Edward  T 1885 

Humphrey,  Geo.   M 1883 

Ilunggate.  J .   H 1889 

Hunt,  Jacob  S S .  5,  6,  7 

Hunter,  J.   M 1889 

Huse,  Jessie  B  1891 

Hyde.  Judson  R T.  7 

Imlay,  Wm T.  10 

Irwin,  Wm.   J 1885-93 

Jackson,  A.  H S.  16,17 

Jackson,  S.  K S.  16,  17 

James,  P.   II 1893 

Jearv,  Edwin 1887 

Jenkins,  D.  C S.  8 

Jenkins,  E.  M 1893 

Jenkins  J.  1) S.  15 

Jensen,  John 1893 

Jensen,  Thomas S.  16,  17,  1883 

Jindra,  Joseph 1885 

Johnson,  Benj S.  16, 17 

Johnson,  C.  S 1883 

Johnson,   Eric 1889 

Johnson,  E.  H T.  10 

Johnson,  F.  M S.  14 

Johnson  J.  V 1891 

Johnson,  II T.  3 

Johnson,  Harrison T.  6 

Johnson,  T.  B S.  14 

Johnson  Nathan  1893 

Johnson,  J.  L 1893 

Johnston,  B.  J 1893 


STATE  AND  TERRITORIAL  GOVEREMENT. 


119 


NAMES  SESSIONS 

Johnston,  David  M . .  .T.  1 

Johnston,  James  C 1885 

Johnston,  N 1885 

Johnston,  Simon 1891 

Jones,  A.  D T.  8 

Jones,  C.   R S.  16, 17 

Jones,  Edward  C T.  4 

Jones,  J.  O 1883 

Jones,  Lewis  E T    11 

Jones,  Oliver,  C S.  5.6,7 

Jones,  S.  F 1891 

Jordan,  E S.  14 

Jury,  J.  A S.  14 

Kaley,C.  H 8.  17 

Kaley,  H.  S S.  16 

Kaley,  Jacob 1885 

Karbach,  C.  J 8.  15 

Kaup,  William 1893 

Kecklev,  Chas.  R 1893 

Keckley  W.  H S.  15 

Keeling,  VV.  W T.  6 

Kehoe,  John   A 1885 

Kelper,  Geo.  F 1887-89 

Kelley,  John  E T.  12 

S.  2,  3,  4 
Kempton,  William. . .  .T.  1 

Kempton'W.  H 8.16,17 

Kenney,  And.  J 1887 

Kennedy,  B.  E.  B T.  9,  8.  15 

Kennedy,  Geo.  F T.  6 

Kennedy,  R.  A 8.15 

Kessler,  John  F 1893 

Keyes,  Clarence  E 1893 

Kilmer,  George  M 1885 

Kimball,  R T.  3 

King,  Edwin  L 1885 

King  Horace  G 1887 

King,  H.  P 8    16 

King  Wingate T.  4 

Kipp,  Frank 8.  8 

Kirk,  A.  D T.  2 

Kirkpatrick,  8.  M T.  10 

Kline, L.M T.  5 

Kloepfel,  John 8.  15,  16, 17 

Kloke,  Robert  F 1893 

Knox  David 1887 

Krick,  Edward 1891-93 

Kruse,  James  G 1891-93 

Kuonv,  John  B 1883-85 

Ky ner ,  i  ames  H 8 .  16,  17, 1893 

Laffin,L.  H 8.  9,10 

Laird  G.  C 1883 

Laird  William T.  2 

Lake,  Geo.  B T.  6,9,11 

Lamb,  C.  L 8.  16,17 

Lambert,  Wm.   B 8.14 

Lamp,  H.   A 1891 

Langdon,  Martin T.  10 

Larimer  Wm.  Jr T.  2 

Larsh,  N.  B T.  8 

Larson.  L.  P 1889 

Lash,  Emmor 8.8  151889 

Latham,  John  M T.  1 

Latta  Jas.  P 1887 

Latta,  Wm.   8 T.  6 

Laughlin,  J.  C S.  16, 17 

Lawrence,  J.  C T.  3 

Teaming,  8.    T T.  8 

Leary,  C.   A 8.  6,7 


NAMES  SESSIONS 

Lee,  Cyrus  H 1885 

Lee,  George  F T.  5 

Lee,    John  M 1883  85- 

Letler,  North  P T.  11 

Lehman,   Geo.    8 S.  16, 17 

Leidigh,  G.    W 1893 

Leighton,  A.  C T.  10 

Ley,  Henry 1889 

Liebhart,  George 1885 

Liesveld,  Herman  J... 8.  1885-87 

Lincoln.  J.  C T.9 

Lingenfelter,  Geo.   C. . . .  1893 

Link,  H., T.  12 

Link,  J.  L 8.  16, 17 

Lisk,  Jacob 8.  15 

Lockner,    Augustus 1893 

Lockwood,  Wm.  F T.  7 

Lomax,   Howard 1891 

Long,  John  E 8.15 

Lord,  Geo.  W 1887 

Love,  Lee 8.  14 

Loveland,  D.  8 8.  15 

Lov eland,  Edwin 8.  5,  6,  7 

Lowe,  Samuel  A T.  7 

Lucus,  R.  8 8.  11,  12.  ];; 

Luce,  Clarence  A 1885 

Luikart,  G.    A 1893 

Luthy,  J.    U 1883 

Lyncn,  J.  0 1893 

Mack,  Tobias 8.  15 

Maddock,  Wilson  M. .  .T.  1 

Majors, 8.  P S.  8 

Majors,  T.  J 1889 

Mattes  John  Jr 1889 

Malcomb,  A.  B T.  6 

Marble,  Wm.   H 1885 

Marshall,  Thomas  11. . . .  1887 

Marquett.  T.  M T.  4,  5,  6 

Martin,  Lee 1883-85 

Mason,  O.   P T.  5 

Masters,    J.    H 8.9,10 

Matheson,  J.  G 1891 

Mathewson,  Chas.  P.. 8.  15 

Mathias,  Alfred T.  7 

Mathieson,  John 1887 

Maxon,  John  H T.  11 

Maxwell,  Samuel T.  6, 10,  11 

8.  1 

May  Milton 8.  9,  10 

Merrick,  H.  J 1893 

Modie,  A.  C 1891 

Moon  J.  M 1891 

McAllister,  W .  A 1883 

McArdie,  P 8.  15  1885 

McBride,  J.   C 1889 

McCaig,   David S.  5  6,7 

McCandish,  W.  N T.  10 

McCartney,  A.   F T.9 

8.  5,6,7 

McCashland,  J.  N T.  6 

McConn,  Wm.  H 1887 

McConaughy,  Geo.  M. . .  1887 

McColl,  J.  H 8.  14 

McClun,  N.  T 8    16,17 

McClure,  H.  W H.  16,  17 

McCradv,  James 8.  14 

McCutchen,  W .   A 1891-93 

McDonald,   Charles.. T.  2 


STATE  AND  TERKITORIAL  GOVERNMENT. 


NAMES  SESf^lONS 

McDonald,  David S.  1 

McDowell,  J  .   B S .  9,  10. 11 

12,  13 

McDousall,    M S.  16,  17 

McGavock,    A 1883 

McGrew,  Samuel  W 1887 

McKeuna,  AugusLiue  P. 

S.  1887 

McKee,  Geo.   M S.  14 

McKesson,  J.  C.  F 1891-93 

McKillip,  D.  C S.  11,  12,  13 

McKinnon,   Jos S .  ft,  6,  7 

McKinnon,  J.   H S.  16,17 

McLaughlin,  Daniel. T.  8 
McLennan,  Wm T.  9 

S.  5,  6,  7 

McMillan,  John 1889 

McNickle,  A.   B 1889 

Me  Reynolds,  Logan 1891 

McShane,  John  A S.  16, 17 

McVey,  E.   A 1893 

McVicker,  W.  J S.  14 

Mead  Giles T.  7S.  15 

Meeker  C.  W 1889 

Megeath,  James  G T.  11 

Mengell,  E.  M S.  14 

Mercer,  J.  J S.  14 

Metz,  Chas.   L S.  9,10 

Meyers,  J.  11 S.  14 

Mickey,  John  II S.  16, 17 

Miles,  Benjamin  F 1885 

Millard,  Ezra T.  7 

Miller,  Geo.  F T.  2 

Miller,  L.    W 1883 

Miller,  Matt 1885-87 

Mills,  B.  L S.  14 

Minick,  Hirman  O S.  6,  7 

Minick,  J.  S T.  4 

Minnix,  Hugh  C 1887 

Mitchell  J.  L S.  15 

M  ontgomery ,  K .   W . . .  S .  16 

Moore,  J.  O S.  16.  17 

Moore,  N.  H S.  15 

Moore,  S.  V S.  14,  16,  17 

Moore,  Wm.  E T.  2,  3 

Morrison,  W .  ^V 1883 

Morrisev,  F.   R 1889 

Morton,  J.   Sterling. .  .T.  2,  4 

Morton,  Henry S.  3,4 

Moudy,  M.  V S.  11,12,13 

Mullen,  J.    P 1891 

Mullen,  Louden T.  7 

Mullen,  P.   M  S.  16,17 

Mulvahill,  John 1885 

Munn,  Eugene S.  8,  11, 12 

13,  1885 

Murphy,  Frank S.  11, 12, 13 

Murnhv,  Michael T.  3,  4 

Mvefs,  John  C S.  8 

Mvers,  Nathan T.  16 

Natlziger,    John S.  5,6 

Nance,   Albinus S.  11, 12,13,14 

Nason,  W.    N 1893 

Keligh,  John  D T  10  1885 

Nelson,  Austin S.  9,  10 

Nelson,  N.  P 1891-93 

Nettleton,  Daniel  M 1883-85 

Neumeyer,  Geo.  W 1885 

Neve,  Wm 1885 


NAMES  SESSIONS 

Neville,  William S.  14 

Neville,  William 1883 

Newberry,   Fred. 1891-93 

Newman,  Henry  A. .  .T.  9 

Newcomer,  Dalis  P 1883-87 

Newton  Wm 1887 

Nichols,   John   II 1885-87 

Nichols    David 1891 

Nicodemus.  H .  B S .  14 

Nims,  Ruel S.  8 

Noel  Jesse T.  5,  6 

Norris,  Chauncey  H 1887 

North,  Frank 1883 

Northrup,  C.  Max S.  13 

Norwood  Chas.  C T.  5 

Nuckolls,  Houston T.  6 

Nuckolls,  Stephen  F.  .T.  6 

Oakley,  R.  H 1891-93 

O'Connor,  Cornelius.  .T.  8, 11 
O'Hanlon.   Phillip. ..  .S.  1 

Olinger,  W.  G S.  11,  12, 13 

Olmstead,  Fred   H 1885 

Olmstead,  F.  D 1889 

Olson,  P.  B 1891-93 

Osgood,    Chas.  E 1885 

O'Sullivan,  P.  F 1889 

Overton,   Joiin S.  8 

Overton,  N S.  16,  17  1887 

Owen,  Samuel  G S.  9,  10,  15 

Paddock,  J.    W T.  4,  11 

Page,  B.  W S.  14 

Palmer,  A.  S S .  16,  17  1883 

Palmer,  Joshua 1883 

Parchen,    Wm S.  1 

Pardee,  H.  C T.  9 

Parish,   Watson S .  5,  6,  7 

Parker,  Ed. S.  9.  10 

Parker,  Henry  C 1891 

Parker,  Hiram  W T   7 

Parker,  T.  B  S    14 

Parmelee,  David  S...  T.  12 

S.  2,3,4,5,6 

Parrv,  John  M S.  16,  17 

Patrick,  J.  W S.  9,  10 

Patterson,  J.  M S.  8 

Pattison,  Leander  W..S.  6,  7 

Patton,  Wm.  M 8.  15 

Paul,  N.J S.  14 

Paxton,  W.  A S.  16,  17 

Payne,  Robert 1883 

iVdbody,   U.  P S.  17, 

Pemberton,  Wm.  J 1887 

Peters,  John 1^87 

Peterson,  Andrew  M    S.  16,  17 
Peterson,  Edward   W...1885 

Petit.  Samuel  T.  10 

Phillips,  R.  O S.  14 

Phillips,  Wm.  B  T.  10,  11 

Pickard  James  W....T.  10 

Pinney,  N.  R S.  11  12,13 

Plumljeck,  Ctco S.  15 

Pohlman,  John  II 1891 

Pollock,  J.  W  S.  14 

Polk,  J.  F S.  15 

Polleck,  William  A...T.  11  S  1 

Pollock,  W.   A S.  15 

Poppleton,  Andrew  J.  .T.  1,4 

Porter,   DeForest S.  8 

Porter,  H.  B T.  7,8 


STATE  AND  TERRITORIAL  GOVERNMENT. 


12< 


NAMES  SESSIONS 

Porter,  N.  S T.  9.  10 

Porter,  W.   V 1S91-93 

Potter,  R.  K 1889 

Poynter,  \Vm.  A 1885 

Preston,  James S    3,4 

Price,  M.   S «.  15 

Pritchett,  Geo.  E S.  14 

Purnell,   Chns 1891 

Purple,  H.  C T.  1 

Putney,  W.  W S.  16, 17 

Queen,  James S.  1 

Quimby,  D.  J S.  8 

Ramev,  D,  M 1883 

Randall,  Wm.  S 1887 

Rankin,  B.  P T.  5 

Ranney,  H.D 1883 

Ransom,  Erank  T...    .8.  16,  17 

Ratclirte,  J.   R 1883 

Rathman,  Christian.  .S.  5,  6,  7 

Raymond,  I.  M 1887 

Ravner,  H.  St 1889 

Reck,  John T.  6,  8 

Redick,  John  I T.  7 

Reed,  Edwards S.  4 

Reed,  Geo.  C S.  16  17 

Reed,   Lewis S.  8 

Reed,   William T.  7,  8 

Reis,   A S.  14 

Renner,  F T.  9 

Reyman,   M.  B S.  16,  17 

Reynolds,  H.  M T.  10 

Reynolds,  Milton  W.  .T.  6,  8 

Rhea,  Robert  C 1893 

Rhodes  Hinman S.  5,  6,  7,  8 

Rhodes,  H.  F 1893 

Rhodes,  Julius 18*^9 

Rice,  Alonzo  E 1885 

Rice,  Lorenzo T.  9 

Richardson,  J.  W T.  1 

Riden,M.  W T.  2 

Rief,  Chas 1885 

Ricketts,  M.  0 1893 

Rilev,  Austin 1891-93 

Riley,  James  E 1885 

Riordan,  H.  C S.  8 

Ritchie.  John T.  9 

Ritchie,  W.E 1891 

Robb,  D.  B T.  4 

Robb,  F.  W S.  14 

Robb,  Washington 1889 

Robberts,  J.  C S.  16,  17,  1883 

Roberts,  A S.  8 

Robertson,  John  B  . .  .T.  1 

Robertson,  Simon  F 1885 

Robertson,  T.  H T.  11,  S  1 

Robinson,  Chas.  S 1893 

Robinson,  James T    11 

Robinson,  John  F 1885 

Roche,  John  J 1883 

Rockwell,  Austin 8.  2,  3,  4 

Roeder,  Augustus...  T.  15 

Rogers,  E.  H T.  6 

Rohan,  P.  F 1891 

Rohr,  R.  H S.  15 

Ronwer,  H.  J T.  9 

Rolfe,  D.  P S.  2 

Roll,  J.F S.  11,12,13 

Root,  Anderson 1885 

Root,  H.  D S.  16,  17 


NAMES  SESSION-; 

Roper,  Fordyce S .  6,  7 

Rose,  A.  M T.  2 

Rosewater,  Edward... S.  8 

RO.SS,  Hugh  M T.  12 

Rouse,    John S.  8 

Rowles,  W.  D T   8 

Ruggles.  L.  G 1891-93 

Russell,  Byron  P 1885 

Russell,  Henry  C 1887 

Russell,  W.J 1883 

Runyan,  M.  M R.  14 

Ryan.  T.  C S.  15 

Ryan,  William  M S.  8 

Sadilek,  F.  J 1883 

Sadler,  L S.  14 

Salisbury,  Alonzo  F. .  .T.  2 

Sanders,  Daniel  C S.  1 

Sargent,  J.  E 1889 

Satchell,  Nicholas  M. . . .  1887-89 

Savage,  E.   P 1883 

Schelp,    Wm 1891-93 

Schick,  T.   L S.  16 

Schlotfeldt,  Henry 1891-93 

Schminke,  Paul S.  9, 10,  14 

Schock,   Henrv S.  8 

Schroeder,  Charles. . .  .S.  18  1883 

Sehappel,  C.  A 1891-93 

Schovill,D.  A 1889 

Schoville,  Frank  A 1885 

Schrader.  C.  1)..   1891 

Sch  wab,    Henrv 1887 

Scott,  Andrew  J 1893 

Scott,  J.  P S.  16-17 

Scott,  Wm.  T S.  15 

Scott,  Robert  M 1891 

Seed,  Adam 1889 

Seeley,  J.  C S.  11.  12,  13 

Seeley,  Jonas T.  3 

Seelv,  Silas  E :..T.  3 

Seers,  F.  A S.  16,  17 

Selden,  P S.  14 

Sessions,  Milan  H S.  9, 10, 15, 

1883 

Severin,  F.  C 1889-91 

Seybolt,  Geo.  L S.  5,  6,  7 

Seymour,  C.  W T.  9 

Seymour  James  H S.  5,  8 

Shamp,  Jerome 1887 

Sharp,  N.  J T.  3 

Shedd,  H.    H S.  16,17 

Shelby,  P.  R S.  14 

Sheldon,  Lawson T.  4 

Shelly,  B.  Y S.  15 

Shephard,  G.   W 1889 

Sheridan,  I.  A 1893 

Shields,  Matthew T.  5,6 

Shipley,  Joseph 1891 

Shook,  George  R S.  5,  6,  8 

Shryock,  W.    B 1891 

Sibley,  Samuel  P T. 

Sill,  J.  A S..  16, 17 

Silver,  H.   H S.  16,17 

Sim,  Francis T.  9 

Simms,  Benj .  M 1887 

Simanek,   Thomas 1887 

Simonton,  R.N S.  15 

Sinclair,    John 1893 

Singleton,  John  A. . .  .T.  1 
Sisson,  Edwin  F 1893 


STATE  AND  TERRITORIAL  GOVERNMENT. 


NAMES  SESSIONS 

Slader,    D,   C S.  2  3,4 

Slater.  August   B 1887 

Slaughter,  W.  M T.  3 

Slocumb,  C.    B S    15,16,17 

Small,  James  W S.  14 

Smith,  James 1891 

Smith,  Andrew  J T.  1 

Smith,  G.    F 1893 

Smith,  Hanford  O 1885 

Smith,  J.    D S.  1,5 

Smith,  J.  E S.  14,  15 

Smith,  James  G T.  11 

Smith,  Joel  S T.  9 

Smith,  Julius 1893 

Smith,  Theo 1893 

Smyth,  Constantine  J.. .  1887 

Snyder,  Adam 1889 

Soderman,  E 1891-93 

Sollenburger,  Jacob.. T.  7 
Sommerlad,H.   W....S.  1.8 

Spanogle,  A.  J 1883 

Sparks,  John S.  15 

Sparks,  J.   W S.  15 

Speice,  Charles S.  5,  6,  7 

Spellman,  Henry S.  14 

Spencer,  E.R 1893 

Sprick,  Henry S.  9,  10,  14,16 

17 

Spricknall,  W.  R S.  14 

Sroat,  George    W S.  3,  4 

St.  Clair,  W.  P.  P S.  14 

Mtarrett,  S.  B S.  15 

Staver,  Hugh  Q 1885 

Stebbins,  John 1891 

Stedwell,  A 1883 

Steele,  R.    W T.  5 

Steever,  Amon 1883 

Steinberger,  J T.  3,  4 

Steinberger,  J.  A T.  4,  5 

Steinman,  Henry S.  5  6,  7 

Stephenson,  John  N  —  T6 

Sternsdorff,  Geo.   J 1891 

Stevenson,  R.  F S.  9, 10 

Stevenson,  Thomas,  B..  1885 

Stevens,  A.  D 1891 

Stevens,  John 1891-93 

Stevens,    Henrv 1891 

Steward,  John  *B 1891 

Stewart,    A.    S S.  5,6,7 

Stewart,   James T.  3.4,  5 

Stewart,  James  S T.  4,  6 

Stirk,  J.    W 1889 

Stirling  H.  James 1885 

Stone.    Isaac S.  15 

Storms  John  D 1891 

'Jtout,  W,  H.   B 8.  5,6,7 

Stout,  E.  P T.  3 

Stouffer,  B.   R S.  15 

Strickland.  Silas  A. . .  .T.  3,  4,  6 

•Stuetter,  Martin T.  12 

Sussenbach,   H 1883 

Sullivan,  John  J 1887 

Sullivan,  P.  C T.  2,4 

Sutherland,  Webster  I..  1885 

Suter,  Lewis  H 1893 

Sutton,  A.  L 1893 

Swartsley,  J.  D 1889 

Swearingen,    J 1883 

Sweet,  Franklin 1887-89 


NAMES  SESSIONS 

Switz«r,    Simon  W S.  14 

Tafte,  John T.  5,  6 

Taggart,  John  M T.  4 

Taggart,  Robert  M 1885 

Talbot,  J.   W S.  5,  6,  7 

Taylor,  J.  W T.  10 

Taylor,  W 1891 

Tavlor,  Frank  M 1891 

Taylor,  W.   Z 1883-85 

Thomas.   Geo.   P S.  1 

Thomas,  Geo.  H 1885 

Thomas,  Ira 1883 

Thomas,  James  W 1885 

Thompson,  Asad  L  1885 

Thompson,  Joseph  D.N  T  1 

Thompson,  J.J S.  15 

Thompson,  M.    J 1883 

Thompson,  R.  A S.  15 

Thorn,  James T.  11  S.  1 

Thornton,  Samuel  W. . . .  1887 

Thrall,  W T.  4 

Thurston,  John  M...  S.  11,12,13 

Tingle,  Abe   H 1887 

Tisdel,  Delos  A S.  5 

Tisdel,  F.  A T.  7,10 

Todd,D.G T.  9 

Tomblin,  D.  M S.  17 

Tomlin.  John  H S.  11,  12, 13 

Tower,  L.  H 1883 

Towle,  Edwin  S S .  9,  10, 11, 12 

13 

Towle,  A.  L  1889 

Town,  W.  A 1883 

Town  send.  Olin S.  3,  4 

Tracev,  John  1887 

True,  Alexander,  C  1885 

True,  M,  B.  C 1885 

Truedale,  Sidney  A  1887-89 

Trumble,  Abner  W..   .T.  12 

S.  2,3,4 

Trowbridge,  T.  H S.  16 

Tucker,  George  P S.  3,  4 

Tufts,    James T.  6 

Tullis,  Ezra S.  1,5,6,7 

Turner,  Charles  M 1885 

Turner,  G.  R 1883 

Turner,  Wm 1887 

Turtle,  William  S.  8,  1885 

Turton,  George  J S.  1 

•Tuxbury.  Albert T.  11,  S  1 

Tyson,  Watson 1887 

Tzschuck,  Bruno S.  9, 10 

Unthank,  J.  A S.  2,  3,  4 

Underbill    GeoC 1887 

Vandeman,  A.  W  ....  S.  15 

Vanderbilt,  W.  H S.  15 

Vandeventer.  W.  N 1891 

Van  Duyn,  John  N       .      1893 
Van  Housen,  John  C. . . .  1892 

Varner,  Loran  A S.  19  1891 

Veach  Moses  A 1887 

Vorhes,  JoelT 1891 

Waldter,  Louis T.  12 

S.  2,3,4 

Waitt  George  W 1885 

Walker  M.   K 1883 

Wallichs,  John T.  12 

S.  2,  3,  4 
Waldron,  W     H... 1891 


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NAMES  SESSIONS 

Walling,  Aug.  M S.  16,17 

Walters,  J.  P S.  14 

Walther,  Charles  F...T.  10 

Wardlaw,  John  M 1887-93 

Warner,  J.   F S.  15 

Warrick,  Amasa  A. . .  .T.  12 

Warrington,  T.  L S.  15 

Watson,  John  C 1887-89-91 

1893 
Wattles,  Stephens  H.  .T.  5,  8 

Watts,  Samuel  F S.  16,  17  1883 

Webster,  J.  L S.  9,  10  . 

Weber  B.  R.  B 1889 

Weller,  H.  D 1889 

Wells,  Joseph 1889 

Wells,  Henry  C S.  16,17 

Wells,  N.  W S.  14,  15 

Wescott,  M.  H S.  17 

Werhan,  W.  S 1S83 

Werner,  Ernst 1891 

Wescott.  M 1883 

West,  Geo.  P T.  10 

Westover,  Herman 1889 

Wetherald,  F.  M 1887 

Whalen,  John T.  9 

Whaley,  Charles  H...T.  7 
Whedon,  Charles  0...S.  16. 17, 1883 

Wheeler,  Cyrus  H S.  9, 10 

Whelpley,  D.  P S.  14 

Whitcomb,  E.  W S.  14 

White,  A.  K S.  9,10 

White,  FredE 1885 

White,  R.  D T.  3 

White,  Francis  E 1887-89-91 

Whitehead,  James 1889 

Whitford,  A.  D 1889 

Whitemore,  Wm.  G 1885-87 

Whitted,  Robert  B....T.  1 

Whitzel,  T.  J 1883 

Whvman,  F.  E 1889 

Wickhara,  James S.  8 


NAMES  SESSIONS 

W'ledensall,  Jacob. .     .S.  11,  12, 13 
Wilbur,  Russell  H  ...T.  11,  S.  1 

Wilbur,  R.  S S.  9, 10 

Wilcox,  Z.  T S.  14 

Wilcox,  J.  A 1889 

Wihelmsen,  Jens 1887 

Wilson,  John. 1893 

Wilson,  John  L 1887 

Wilsey,  Albert S.  16, 1887 

Wiles,  Isaac T.  7,  12 

S.  2,3,4 

Williams,  Henrv 1885 

Williams,  John  W 1889-91 

Williams,  T.  J 1891 

Wilson,  C.  J 1891 

Windam,  R.  B S.  15,  16,  17 

Winspear,  James  H 1885 

Winter,  Thaddens 1889 

Wissenburgh,  H 1883 

WithnellC.  H 1893 

Wolbaeh,  Samuel  N...   .  1885 

Wolcott,  Frank  M S.  8 

Wolfe,  Thomas S.  14 

Wolenweber,  Nicholas..  1887 

Wolpa,  Henry  C T .  3, 1883 

Wood  Joel  M T.  1 

Woods,  J.  D 1893 

Woolworth,  J.  M S.  3.4 

Worl,  J.  W 1883 

Wright,  John  B 1885 

Wright,  W.  F S.  11,12,  13 

Wright,  Pierce  G 1887 

Wyatt,  C.  C S.  16,  17 

York,  W.  R S.  15 

Young  Benjamin 1883 

Young,  Wm.  J T.  5 

Young  Jas.  R 1887 

Yutzv,  Jos.  C 1887-89 

Ziegler,  J.  A S.  15, 16, 17 

Zimmerman S.  5,  6,  7 


PRESIDENTIAIi  EI.ECTORS. 


Republican  Electors  for  U.  S.  Grant— 1868. 

T.  M.  Marquet,  Lewis  Allgewahr,  J.  F.  Warner. 

Democratic  Electors  for  H.  Seymour— 1868 
James  G.  Megath,  J.  A.  Hellmann,  Vine  Kummer. 

Republican  Electors  for  U.  S.  Grant— 1878. 
S.  A.  Strickland,  Otto  Funke,  H.  G.  Heist. 

Democratic  Electors  for  Horace  Greeley— 1873. 

John  Creighton,  O.  P.  Mason, Foster. 

Republican  Electors  for  R.  B.  Hayes— 1876. 
S.  A.  Strickland,  Amasa  Cobb,  A.  H.  Connor. 

Democratic  Electors  for  S.  J.  Tilden,  1876. 
S.  H.  Calhoun,  St.  John  Goodrich,  M.  C.  Keith. 

Republican  Electors  for  James  A.  Garfield- 1880. 
J.  M,  Thurston,  G.  W,  Collins,  James  Lair4, 


124  PRESIDENTIAL  ELECTORS. 


Democratic  Electors  for  W.  S.  Hancock— 1880. 

J.  E.  Boyd,  Victor  Vifquain,  B.  I.  Hinman. 

Greenback  Electors  for  James  B.  Weaver — 1880. 
H.  G.  Cass,  W.  W.  Connor,  George  Watkin. 

Kepublican  Electors  for  James  G.  Blaine— 1884. 
C.  H,  Dewey,  Henry  Sprick,  R.  B.  Harrington,  A.  L.  Burr,  John  Macken 

Democratic  (Fusion)  Electors  for  Grover  Cleveland — 1884. 
Patrick  Hines,  J.  M.  Patterson,  W,  H.  Ashby,  H.  S.  Alley,  R.  R.  Shick. 

Prohibition  Electors  for  John  P.  St.  John— 1884, 
A.  L.  Reinoehl,  F.  J.  Sibley,  J.  G.  BerdroAv,  L.  B.  Boggs,  M.  J.  Garrett. 

Republican  Electors  for  Benjamin  Harrison— 1888. 
H.  C.  Russell,  G.  H.  Hastings,  M.  M.  Butler,  C.  E,  Iddings,  James  Mc- 
Neny. 

Democratic  Electors  for  Grover  Cleveland— 1888. 
W.  G.  Sloan,  Olof  Hedstrom,  A.  F.  Tibbets,  S.  C.  Kesterson,  C.  W.  Allen, 

Prohibition  Electors  for  Clinton  B.  1  isk— 1888. 
C.  C.  Crowell,  R.  A.  Hawley,  S.  D.  Fitch,  E.  S.  Abbott,  James  R.  Gary. 

Union  Labor  Electors  for  A.  J.  Streeter- 1888. 
Allen  Root,  J.  F.  Black,  C.  W.  Wheeler,  L.  H.  Gaboon,  Orin  Colby. 

Republican  Electors  for  Benjamin  Harrison— 189/J. 
I.  M.  Raymond,  W.  J.  Broatch,  Cenek  Duras,  Chas.  W.  Johnson,  H.  A. 
Miller,  Daniel  M.  Nettleton,  E.  P.  Savage,  Isaac  Wiles. 

People's  Independent  Electors  for  James  B.  Weaver— 1893. 
Elijah  E.  Link,  Thomas  H.  Tibbies,  Jetur  R.  Conklin,  Peter  Ebbeson, 
Thomas  G.  Ferguson,  William  A.  Garrett,  John  I.  Jones,  Richard  R.  Shick 

Democratic  Electors  for  Grover  Cleveland— 1892. 
Piasecki,  John  E.  Shervin,  H.  E.  Dunphy,  T.  V.  Golden,  Albert  Gor- 
don, J.  Edgar  Howard,  George  H.  Thomas,  Albert  Watkins. 

Prohibition  Electors  for  Gen.  John  Bidwell— 1893. 
R.  A.  Hawley,  Mary  M.  Lantry,  E.  T.  Cassell,  N.  Christopherson,  A.  D. 
George,  Isaiah  Lightner,  J.  Phipps  Roe,  S.  S.  Stewart. 

Peoples'  Independent  Electors  for  W.  J.  Bryan— 1896. 
Nela  O.  Alberts,  Jacob  N.  Campbell,  Fielden  J.  Hale,  Michael  F.  Harrinp:- 
toii,  Stanley  Louis  Kostoryz,  Fred  Metz,  Sr.,  Olof  VV.  Palm,  Xavier  Piasceki. 
Democratic  Electors  for  W.  J.  Bryan— .896. 
Josepb    Bruenij?,   A.    S.   Godfrey,   William   Griffln,    J.   A.   Kirk,   Charles 
Nicolai.  Fred  Rennard,  Alexander  Scott,  Charles  Turner. 

Republican  Electors  for  William  McKinley— '  896. 
Albert  J.  Burnham,  Georxe  A.  Derby,  Solomon  Draper,  Albert  C.  Foster. 
Martin  L.  l-ries,  Jacob  E.  Houtz,  John  L.  McPheely,  Frank  J.  Sadilek. 
National  Electors— 1896. 
E.  H.  Affee,  James  K.  Lane,  A.    Lnth,  Thomas  W.  Mathews,  J.  S.   Miller, 
D.  L.  Pond,  A.  P.  Seymour,  Lem.  J.  Smith. 

Prohibition  Electors  for  Bev. Bentley— 1896. 

O.  R.  Beebe,  C.  L.  Carpenter,  S.  M.  Cozid.  John  F.  Helin,  D.  W.  C.  Hunt- 
ington, C.  Lowenstein,  N.  Lowrie,  Mary  E.  Itockwell. 
Socialist  ^abor— 1896. 
H.  S.  Aley,  Charles  E.   Baker,  August   Beermann,  Thomas  M.    Conway, 
John  C.  Curtis,  William  H.   Daniels,   Fred  Teickmeir,  John  W.  Uuangst. 


ELKCTION  STATISTICS. 


125 


ELECTION  STATISTICS. 

Popular  and  Electoral  Vote  of  the  United  States   for  Prei^ident 
and  Vice-President,  1789— 1898. 


Political 
Party. 


Presidents.* 


Candidates. 


Vote. 


Popular. 


Vice-Presidents.* 


Candidates. 


1879 


1792 


1796 


Federalist,  , 
Federalist,  . 
Republican, 


Federalist,  . 
Republican, 
Federalist,  . 
Republican, 


1800 


Republican, 
Republican, 
Federalist, . 
Federalist,.. 


George  Washington, 

John  Adams, 

John  Jay,  

R.  H.  Harrison,.. 
John  Rutledge,.. 
John  Hancock,  . . 
George  Clinton,.. 
Samuel  Huntingdon 

ohn  Milton, 

James  Armstrong,. . 
Benjamin  Lincoln,. 

Edward  Telfair, 

Vacancies, 

George  Washington 

John  Adams 

George  Clinton, 

Thomas  Jeiterson,. . 

Aaron  Burr, 

Vacancies, 

John   Adams, 

Thomas  Jefferson,.. 
Thomas  Pinkney, . . . 

Aaron  Burr , 

Samuel  Adams, 

Oliver  Ellsworth,... 

Geoi*ge  Clinton, 

John  Jay, 

James  Iredell 

George  Washington, 

John  Henry 

S.  Johnson 

Charles  C.  Pinckney 
Thomas  Jefferson,. 

laron  Burr 

John  Adams, 

Charles  C.  Pinckney 
John  Jay, 


69 


t78 


2 
2 

1 

t73 

65 

64 

1 


♦Previous  to  the  election  of  1804,  each  elector  voted  for  two  candidates 
for  President ;  the  one  receiving  the  highest  number  of  votes,  if  a  majority, 
was  declared  elected  President,  and  the  next  highest  Vice-President 

fThere  having  been  a  tie  vote,  the  choice  devolved  \ipon  the  House  of 
Representatives.  A  choice  was  made  on  the  36th  ballot,  which  was  as 
follows;  Jefferson— Georgia,  Kentucky  ^iaryland.  New  Jersey.  New  York 
North  Carolina,  Pennsylvania,  Tennessee*  Vermont  and  Virginia— 10 
states:  Burr — Connecticut,  Massachusetts,  New  Hampshire  and  Road 
Island — 4  states;  Blank— Deleware  and  South  Carolina— 2  states. 


126 


ELECTION  STATISTICS. 


POPULAR  AND  ELECTORAL  VOTE— Continued. 


Political 
Pabtiks. 


1804'Republican. 
Federalist.  . 
Republican. 
Federalist.  . 


1808 


1812  Republican, 
Federalist,  . 


1816 


1820 


1824 


Republican, 
Federalist,  . 


Republican, 
Opposit  on, 


Republican 
Coalition,  . 
Republican, 
Republican, 


1828  Democrat, 


Nat.  Repub. 

Democratic. 
Nat.  Repub. 


Democratic, 

Whig, 

Whig, 

Whig 

Whig, 


Presidents. 


Candidates. 


Vote. 


Thomas  Jefferson,.. 
Charles  C.  Pinckney 
James  Madison, . . . . 
Charles  C.  Pinckney 
George  Clinton,  . . 


Vacancy, 

James  Madison, 
DeWit  Clinton,. 

Vacancy, 

James  Monroe,. 
Rufus  King, 


Vacancy,  

James  Monroe,. 
John  Q.  Adams, 


Vacancy,  

Vndrcw  Jackson,.. 
John  Q.  Adams, . . . 
Wm.  H.  Crawford,. 
Henry  Clay, 


VHcancy,  

Vndrevv  Jackson, 
John  Q.  Adams . . 


.\ndrew  Jackson. 
Henry  Clay,  ... 
John  Lloyd,  |  . . . 
Wm.  Wirt, 


Vacancies 


Martin  Van   Buren, 
Wm.  II.  Harrison 
Hugh  L.  White, 
Daniel  Webster, 
W.  P.  Mangum, 


Popular. 


155,872 
105,321 
44,282 

40  587 


047.231 
509  097 

687,502 
530  189 

33,108 


761,549 


736,616 


George  Clinton.. 

Rufus  King 

George  Clinton. .. 

Rufus  King 

John  Langdon. . . 
James  Madison. . 
James  Monroe.. . 


Elbridge  Gerry.. 
Jared  Ingersoll. 


170 
r73 
I  26 
il4 
111 


Vice-Presidents. 


Candidates. 


D.  D.  Tompkins.. 
John  E.  Howard. 

James  Ross 

John  Marshall. . . 
Robert  G.  Harper 


D.  D.  Tompkins.. 
Richard  Stockton 
Daniel  Rodnoy.. . 
Robert  G.  Harper 
Richard   Rush... 


John  C.Calhoun. 
Nathan  Kanford.. 
Nathan'l  Macon.. 
Andrew  Jackson, 

M.  Van  Buren 

Henry  Clay 


John  C.  Calhoun 
Richard  Rush ... 

Wm.  Smith 

M.  Van  Buren . . . 

JohU'Sergeant 

Henry  Lee , 

Amos  Ellmaker. 
Wm.  Wilkins... 


R.  M.  Johnson . . f 
Francis  Granger. 

John  Tyler 

Wm.  Smith 


*No  choice  having  been  made  by  the  electoral  college,  the  choice  de- 
volved upon  the  House  of  Representatives.  A  choice  whs  made  on  the 
first  ballot,  which  was  as  follows:  Adams-Connecticut,  Illinois,  Kentucky, 
Lousiana,  Maine,  Maryland,  Massachusetts,  Missouri,  New  Hampshire, 
New  York.  Ohio,  Rhode  Island  and  Vermont.— 13  states.  Jackson— Ala- 
bama, Indiana,  Mississippi,  New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania,  South  Carolina  and 
Tennessee. — 7  states.  Crawford— Delaware,  Georgia,  North  Carolina  and 
Virginia.— 4  states. 

fNo  candidate  having  received  a  majority  of  the  votes  of  the  electoral 
college,  the  senate  elected  R.  M.Johnson,  Vice  President,  who  received 
33  votes;  Francis  Granger  received  10. 


ELECTION  STATISTICS. 


127 


POPULAR  AND  ELECTORAL  VOTE— Continued. 


1840 

1844 

1848 

1852 
1856 

186() 

1864 
1868 
1872 


1876 


Political 
Pakt Y . 


Democratic 

Whig 

Liberty 

Whig' 

Democratic . . 
Free  Soil.... 
Democratic. 

Whig 

P'ree  Dem . . . 
Democratic  . 
Republican.. 

.\mer  can 

Republican  . 
Democratic  . 
Cons.  Union 
Ind.  Dem... 
Republican.- 
Democratic  . 

Republican  . 
Democratic  . 

Republican  . 
Dem  and  Lib 
Democratic 
Temperance. 


Republican 
Democratic 
Greenback  . 
Prohibition. 


1880  Republican 
Democratic 
Greenback  . 
Prohibition 
American. . 


Presidents. 


Candidates. 


Wm.  H.  Harrison. . 
Martin  Van  Buren. 
James  G.    Birnev.. 


James  K.  Polk 

Henry  Clay 

James  G.  Birney 

Zachary  Taylor 

Lewis  Cass 

Martin  Van  Buren . . 

Franklin   Pierce 

Wintield  Scott 

John  P.   Hale 

James  Buchanan . . . 
John  C.  Fremont. . . 

Millard  Filmore 

.\braham  Lincoln.. 
J.  C.  Breckenridge. 

John  Bell 

S.  A.  Douglas 

Abraham  Lincoln, . 
Geo  B.  McClellan.. 
♦States  not  voting. 
Ulyssess  S.  Grant... 
Horatio  Seymour.... 
fStates  not  voting. . 

Ulysses  S.  Grant 

Horace  Greeley 

Charles  O'Coiior 

James  Black 

Thos.  A.  Hen.  ri  ks 

B.  Gratz  Browi. 

Chas.  J.  Jenkens. . .. 
David  Davis 


Vote. 


Popular . 


Not  Counted '. 

R.  B.    Hayes 

Samuel  J.  Tilden  . .. 

Peter  Cooper 

Green  Clay  Smith. . 

Scattering 

James  A.  Garfield.. . 
Wintield  S.  Hancock 
James  B.  Weaver. . . 

Neal  Dow 

John  W.  Phelps  .. . 
Scattering 


1,275,017 

1,128,702 

7.059 


1,337,243 
1  299,068 
62,300 
1,360,101 
1,220,544 

291.263 
1,601,474 
1,386,578 

156,149 
1,838,169 
1,341,264 

874,534 
1,866,352 

845,763 

589,.581 
1,375,157 
2,216,067 
1,808,725 

3,015,071 
2,709,613 

3,597,070 

2,834,079 

29,408 

5,608 


4,033,950 

4,284,885 

81,7801 

9,552 

2,636 

4,449,053 

4,442,0;j5 

307, 

10,305 

707 


Vice-Pkesident.s 


Candidates. 


234  John  Tyler 

60R.  M.  Johnson,. 

jFrancisLemoyne 

James  K.  Polk, 

|L.  W.  Tazweli. 

170 Geo.  M.  DaUas, 

105  T  Frelinghuysen 

iTliomas   Morris 

163  Millard  Filmore, 

127, Wm.    O.  Butler, 

Chas.  F    Adams, 

2.54 Wm.  R.  King,... 

42  Wm.  A.  Graham 

Geo.  W.  Julian,. 

.74'JC  Breckenridge 

114|Wm    L.  Dayton, 

8 A.  J.  Donelson,- 

180  H'nnibalHamlin 

72 Joseph  Lane,. 

39 Edward,  Everett 

12 H.  V.Johnson 

2121  Andrew  Johnson 

2l|G.  H.  Pendleton 

8l| 

214Schvler  Colfax,. 
80 F.  P.  Blair,  Jr.. 

23 

286 Henry  Wilson.. 

B.  Gratz  Brown, 

Geo.  W.  Julian. 

A.  H.  Colquitt.. 

John  M.  Palmer 

42 T.  E.  Bramlette, 

18  W.  S.  Grossbeck 

8  Will  is  B  Machon 

IN.  P.  Banks... 

17 

185  Wm.  A.Wheeler 
184TAHendricks, 
Samuel  Gary. 
G.  T.  Stewart 

215ChesterA  Arthur 

155!Wm.  H.  English 

JB.  J.  Chaml)ers, 

ill.  A.  Thompson 

Sam .  C .  Pomeroy 


11 

170 
105 

163 
127 

254 
42 

174 
114 

8 

180 

72 

39 

12 

212 

21 

81 

214 

80 

23 

286 

47 

5 

5 

3 

1 

1 

1 

1 

17 

185 

184 


♦Eleven  states  did  not  vote,  viz:  .\labaraa,  Arkansas,  Florida,  Georgia, 
Louisiana,  Mississippi,  North  Carolina,  South  Carolina,  Tennessee,  Texas 
and  Virginia. 

fThree  states  did  not  vote,  viz:  Mississippi,  Texas  and  Virginia. 


128 


ELECTION  STATISTICS. 


POPUIiAR  AND  ELECTORAL  VOTE— Continued. 


Political 

Presidents. 

Vice-President 

5 

Vote. 

o 

Party. 

Candidates. 

f* 

Candidates. 

c3 

Popular. 

S 

o 

1884 

Democratic. 

Grover  Cleveland . . , 

4,911,017 

219T.  A.  Hendrick- 

Republican  . 

James  G.  Blaine 

4,848,33'! 

182' John  A.  Logan. 

Proliibition  . 

John  P.  St.  John.... 

151,809 

Wm.    Daniel... 

Greenback . . 

Benj.  F.  Butler 

Scattering 

133,826 
11362 

A.M.  West 

1888 

Republican  . 

Benj.   Harrison 

5,444,053 

233 Levi.  P.   Morton 

Democratic  . 

Grover  Cleveland... 

5,-538,536 

168  AllenGThurman 

Prohibition  . 

Clinton  B.  Fisk 

248,997 

John  A.  Brooks. 

Union  Labor 

A.  J.  Streeter 

146,100 

CE  Cunningham 

American  ... 

James  L.  Curtis 

J     R.  Greer 

UnitedLabor 

R.  H.  Cowdery 

W  H  T  Wakefield 

Ind.  Reform 

Alfred  E.  Redstone. 

John  Colvin 

Equal  Rights 

Belva  Lockwood 

Chas.  S.Wells... 

1892 

Democratic  . 

Grover  Cleveland. . . 

5,566,525 

277 

A.  E.  Stevenson 

Republican  . 

Benj.    Harrison.... 

5,175,517 

145 

Whitelaw  Reed. 

Peoples  Ind. 

James  B.  Weaver... 

1,222,015 

22JamesG.  Field.. 

Prohibition.. 

John  Bidwell 

279  19] 

James  B  Cranlill 

Social  Labor 

Simon  Wing 

21.191 

C.  H.  Matchet.. 

IS'JtJ 

Democrat..  1 

Sewell 

popuiiHt....  y 

Free  Sil.  U.  ) 

Watson 

Uepublican.. 

W'llHam  McKinley.. 

7,126.54'.> 

271 

Hobart 

Nat.  Dem.... 

John  M.  Palmer 

]:54,7;n 

Prohibition. 

Levering 

1  ?:t,4JS 

Prohibition. 

bentley 

ia.535 

219 

182 


233 

168 


147 

27 
271 


ELECTION  STATISTICS  CONTINUED. 


129 


ELECTION  STATISTICS  Continued. 

VOTES  CAST 

For  Presidential  Candidates  in  Nebraska  Since   the   Admission   of 
the  State. 


1868. 

Grant,  R 9,772 

Seymour,  D 5.519 


Majority 4,253 

1872. 

Grant,  R 17,702 

Greeley,  L  and  D 7,548 

Majority 10,154 

1876. 

Hayes,  R 31.833 

Tilaen,  D 17,554 


Majority 14.279 

1880. 

Garfield,  R 54,979 

Hancock,  D 28,523 

Weaver,  G 3,9.50 


Plurality 26,476 

Majority 22,506 


1884. 

Blaine,   R 76,912 

Cleveland  and  Fusion 54,391 

St.  John,  P 2,899 

Plurality 22,521 

Majority 19  622 

1888. 

Harrison,  R 108,425 

Cleveland.  D 80,.")52 

risk,    P 9,429 

Streeter,   U.  L 4,226 

Plurality 27,873 

Majority  14,218 

1892. 

Harrison,  R 86,858 

Weaver,  P.  1 82,589 

Cleveland,  D 24.740 

Bidwell,  P 4,805 

Plurality 4,217 


POPULAR  VOTE  FOR  MEMBERS  OF   CONGRESS  SINCE    1866. 

1855— Bird  B.   Chapman 380 

Hiram  P.  Bennett 292 

Scattering 18—      690 

1857— Fenner  Ferguson 1,642 

Bird  B.  Chapman 1,559 

Benjamin   P.  Rankin 1,241 

JohnM.  Thayer 1,171 

Scattering 21—  5,634 

1859— Experience  Esterbrook 3,100 

Samuel  G.  Daily 2,800—  5,900 

1860— J.  Sterling  Morton 2,957 

Samuel  G.  Daily... 2  943—  5,900 

1862— Samuel  G.  Daily 2,331 

JohnF.  Kinney 2,180-  4,511 

1864-Phineas  W.  Hitchcock 3.421 

George  L.  Miller 2  399 

Scattering 2-  5,822 

1866-T.  M.  Marquett 4,821 

J.  Sterling  Morton 4,105—  8,926 

John  Taffe 4,820 

Algernon  S.  Paddock 4072 

George  Francis  Train 30—  8  922 

1868— John  Tatte 8,724 

Andrew  J.  Poppleton 6,318—  15,042 

1870— John  Taffe 1^375 

George  B.  Blake 7,967-20,342 


130  ELECTION  STATISTICS  CONTINUED. 


1872— Lorenzo  Crounse 17,124 

Jesse  F.   Warner .' 10,412—  27,536 

1874— Lorenzo  Crounse 22,532 

James  W.  Savage 8,386 

James  G.  Miller 4,074 

James  W.  Davis 972-35,964 

1876— Frank  Welch  (Rep) 30  900 

Joseph  Holman  (Dem.) 17,206 

M.  Warren  (Grccnl )ack) 3,579 

Scattering 89—51,774 

1878-E.  K,  Valentine  (Hep) 28  341 

J.  W.  Davis  (Dem.  and  Greenback) 21,752 

Scattering 21—50,247 

Thomas  J.  Majors  (Rep)  to  lill  vacancy 28,221 

Alex,  Bear  (Dem.)  to  fill  vacancy 21,124 

Scattering 21—49,366 

1S80-E.  K.  Valentine  (Rep.) 52,647 

James  E.  North  (Dem.) 23,634 

Allen  Root  (Greenback) 4  059 

Scattering 4,074—84,414 

1^2— A.  J.  Weaver,  1st  District 17,022 

J.  I.  Redick  1st         '         12,690 

G.  S.  Gilbert,  1st       "        3,707 

Scattering 12—33,42 1 

James  Laird,  2nd  District 12,983 

V.  8.  Moore,  2nd        "        10,012 

F.  A.  Harman  "        3  060 

Scattering 56—26  111 

E.  K.  Valentine.  3rd  District 11,284 

M .  K.  Turner,  '        7  342 

W.  H.  Munger.  •'        9,932 

Scattering 12—28,570 

1884— A.  J.  Weaver.  1st  District 22,644 

Chas.  H.  Brown        •'        21,669 

E.  J.  O'Neil  "        1,024 

Scattering 2—45,339 

James  Laird,  2nd  District  .   2  ,182 

J.  H.  Stickel  "  17  650 

B,  Crabb  "  1,176 

Scattering  "  49—10,057 

George  W.  E.  Dorsey,  3d  District 25,985 

William  Neville,. . .  ^ 20,671 

Albert  Fetch .' 572 

Scattering 17—47,245 

1886— John  A.  McShane,  1st  District 23,396 

Church  Howe,  •'  17,373 

George  Bigelow,  " 2,867 

Scattering 43—42,673 

James  Laird.  2d  District 18,373 

W.  A.  McKeighan      • ,16,315 


ELECTION  STATISTICS  CONTINUED.  181 


C.  S.  Harrison ,  2d  District  3  789 

Scattering , . . ..      187—38,664 

George  W.  E.  Dorsej%  3d  District 28.717 

W.H.Webster  '•  20,943 

W.  J.  dinger,  •'  2  383 

Scattering 112—52,155 

lb88— W.  J  Connell,  1st  District 32,926 

J.  Sterling  Morton    "         29  519 

Edwin  B.  Graham      *«        2,962 

J.  W.  Edgerton  " 650—66,057 

James  Laird,  2d  District 30,959 

W.  G.  Hastings,      "        21,201 

George  Scott  ••        4,128 

H.  H.  Rohr  "        2,715—58,003 

George  W.  E.  Dorsey,  3d  District 42,188 

E.  B.  Weatherby,  "  32,118 

A.  M.  Walling,  "  . .   2,995 

F.O.Jones,  "  4,487—77,788 

18C0-W.  J.  Connell,  1st  District 25,663 

W.J-  Bryan,  "  31,376 

Allen  Root  "  13,066 

E.  H.  Chapin,         "  1,670-71,775 

N.  V.  Harlan,  2d  District 21,776 

W.  A.  McKeighan      "       36,104 

L.  B.  Palmer  "        1,200—59,080 

George  W.  E.  Dorsey,  3d  District 25,440 

W.H.  Thompson  "  22,353 

O.M.Kem,  "  31,831 

W.  L.  Pierce,  " 961—80,585 

1892— W.  J.  Bryan.  1st  District  13,780 

Allen  W.  Field,  "  13,644 

R.W.Maxwell  "  863 

JeromeShamp  '  2.409-30,696 

David  Mercer,  2nd  District 11.488 

Geo.W.Doane,  " 10,388 

R.H.Richardson       '«  362 

Robert  L.  Wheeler     "  3,152—25,390 

Geo.  D.  Meiklejohn,  8rd  District     13  635 

Geo,  F.  Keiper  "  10,630 

W.A.Poynter  "  9,636 

F.  P.  Wigton,  "  867—34,768 

Eugene  J.  Hainer,  4th  District        15,648 

William  H.  Dech,  "  11,486 

Victor  Vifquain,  '  8,988 

J.  P.  KettlewelL  "  1,312—37,434 

William  A.  McKeighan  5th  District 17.490 

William  E.  Andrews  "  14,230 

O.C.Hubbell,  '• 838-32,558 

OmerM.Kemm  6th  District   16,328 

James  Whitehead,  "'  14  195 

A.  T.  Gatewood,  •'  4,202 

Orlando  R.  Beebe,  "  586—35,311 


132  ELECTION  STATISTICS  CONTINUED. 

POPULAR  VOTE  FOR  GOVERNOR  SINCE    EIRST    ELECTION 
«  IN  1866. 

1866— David  Butler 4  093 

J.  Sterling  Morton 3  948-  8,041 

1868— David  Butler 8,576 

J.  R.   Porter 6,349—14,925 

1870— David  Butler 11,126 

JohnH.  Croxton, 8,648-19,774 

1872— Robert  W.  Furnas 16,543 

Henry  C.Lett 11,227—27,770 

1874— Silas  Garber ,21.568 

Albert  Tuxbury 8,045 

J.  F.  Gardner 4  159 

J.  S.  Church 1,346—  36,019 

1876— Silas  Garber 31,947 

Paren  England 17,219 

J.  F.  Gardner 3  022 

Scattering 36—52,234 

1878-Albinus  Nance 29,469 

W.  H.  Webster 13  473 

Levi  G.  Todd 9,475—52,417 

1880— Albinus  Nance 55,237 

T.  W.  Tipton 28,167 

O .  T.  B.  Williams  3.898 

Scattering 43—87,345 

1882-Juines  W.  Dawes 43,495 

J.  Sterling  Morton 28  562 

E.  P.  Ingersoll  16,991 

Scattering 30-89,068 

1884— James  W.  Dawes 72,835 

J.  Sterling  Morton : 57,634 

J.  G.  Miller 3,075 

Scattering 11—133  o55 

1886-John.  M  Thayer .75,956 

James  E.  North 52,656 

H.  W.  Hardy 8  175 

J.  Burrows 1,422 

Scattering 30-138,239 

1888— John  M.  Thayer 103,993 

John  A.  McShaiie 86,420 

George  Bigclo w 9,511 

David  Buiier 3,941—202,865 

1890— L,  D.  Richards CS,878 

J.E.Boyd 71331 

J.  H.  Powers 70,187 

B.  L.  Paine 3,676-214,072 

1892— Lorenzo  Crounsc 78,426 

Chas.  H  Van  Wyck 68,617 

J.  Sterling  Morton 44,195 

C.  E.  Beutley 6,235— 1''7, 178 


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ABSTRACT  OF  VOTES  CAST 

November  8, 1892,  for  Members  of  Congress,  in  the  following  Districts 
recently  demarcated: 

FIRST  CON(5UES«lONAL  DISTRICT. 


COUNTIES. 

< 

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f4 

S 

OQ 

H 

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W 

Cass       

2201 
914 
4700 
1355 
1808 
904 
1902 

1994 
1112 

5010 
1089 
1493 
1135 
1811 

84 

64 
355 

46 
114 
121 

79 

226 

Johnson           

254 
650 
315 
693 
117 
154 

Otoe                  

Richardson 

Totals   

13784 

13644 

863 

2409 

SECOND  CONGRESSIONAL  DISTRICT. 

COUNTIES. 

Kg 

as 

4 

Douglas 

8892 
647 
849 

9953 

533 

1002 

283 
28 
51 

2440 

240 

Washington 

472 

Totals 

10388 

11488 

362 

3152 

THIRD  CONGRESSIONAL  DISTRICT. 

COUNTIES. 

1 

Si 

% 

248 
255 
333 
655 
757 

1197 
500 
496 

1721 
510 
983 
407 
83 
508 
942 
435 
133 
467 

787 
837 

1219 
649 
572 
890 
444 
604 

1453 
•       859 

1090 
-  779 
652 
371 
982 
345 
494 
603 

922 
978 
770 
474 
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329 
183 
458 
523 
698 
634 
618 
716 
293 
896 
21::; 
86 
403 

95 

Boone            

35 

Burt 

72 

Cedar  

35 

Colfax 

29 

Cuming 

Dakota     

43 
12 

Dixon     ....                      ... 

73 

Dodge 

82 

Knox         . .           

79 

Madison  

Merrick.... 

Nance                           . .      

95 
87 
21 

Pierce 

15 

Platte      

46 

Stanton 

14 

7 

'Wayne                

27 

Totals 

10630 

13635 

9636 

867 

ABSTRACT  OF  VOTES. 


147 


ABSTRACT  OF  VOTES  CAST 
At  the  General  Election  held  in  the  State  of  Nebraska,  on  the  3d  day 
of  November,  A.  D.,  1891,  for  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  Re- 
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ABSTRACT  OF  VOTES. 


ABSTRACT  OF  VOTES  CAST— Concluded. 


JUDGE 
SUPREME     COURT. 


Jetterson 

Johns  >n  ... 

Kearney 

Keva  Paha. . 

Keith 

Kimball 

Knox 

Lancaster  . . . , 

Lincoln 

Logan 

Loup 

Madison 

Merrick 

McPhersoii. .. 

Nance   

Nemaha 

Nuckolls.    . 

Otoe 

Pawnee 

Perkins 

Pierce 

Phelps 

Platte 

Polk 

Red  Willow.. 

Richards 

Rock 

Saline 

Sarpy 

Saunders     .    . 
Scott's   Rluir. 

Seward 

Sheridan  — 

Sherman 

Sioux 

Stanton 

Thayer 

Thomas 

Thurston . . .   . 

Valley 

Washington. 

Wavne    

Webster 

Whoe.er 

York 


Totals 


1002 
892 
715 
255 
i;i8 
106 
657 

4269 
802 
116 
103 

1107 
707 
26 
489 
949 
577 

1361 

1004 
263 
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1448 
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756 

1468 
291 

1466 
528 

1506 
213 

1196 
618 
314 
152 
437 
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463 
92;5 
442 
730 
138 
1517 


1012 

733 

843 

377 

228 
63 

781 
3158 

879 

13:5 

108 
1006 

747 
43 

621 

904 

914 
1399 

696 

444 

531 

813  108 


1154 
111 

705 

1249 
206 

1417 
520 

2006 
153 

1223 
968 
593 
222 
322 

1027 
39 
162 
676 
710 
40 
981 
If 

1422 


REGENTS  STATE   UNIVERSITY 


885 
772 
643 
2651 
1681 
93 
625 

3882 
773 
108 
90 
991 
537 
23 
433 
883 
599j 

1258, 

1029 
20(> 
212 
384 
911 
415 
632| 

1430 
301 

1191 
493 

1458 
194 

1148 
555 
280 
147 
408 
972 
45 
280 
493 
«14 
a52 
704 
128 

1490 


821 

783 
611 
256 
147 

91 
633 
3940 
758 
105 

89 
942 
514 

22 
439 
868 
578 

991 
211 

228 
361 

878 

a-s: 

599 

1408 
5 

1105 
438 

1396 
191 

1099 
562 
244 
143 
379 
910 
44 
275 
453 
816 
446 
702 
129 


912 

752 
785 
rf53 
247 
54 
735 

3044 
93'. 
120 
106 
897 
6^4 
41 
629 
951 
988 

1271 
658 
408 
319 
853 

1220 
997 
688 

1109 
221 

1365 
445 

1767 
144 

1127 
910 
584 
190 
294 
062 
41 
132 
665 
682 
394 
993 
146 


1450  1423 


975 
753 
814 
371 
257 
52 
735 

3016 
921 
122 
119 
910 
639 
36 
637 
963 
999 

1255 
133 
428 
308 
842 

1259 

1029 
680 

ll72 
216 

1388 
452 

1763 
133 

1165 
945 
583 
187 
318 
965 
36 
135 
690 
704 

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918 
148 
1422 


0447  723117322  8  69507  65932  66924  67690  8997  9177  120;! 


150  .... 
159  ll' 
117. 

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79  108 


19, 

97 

705 
94 
& 
12 

11.; 

107 

5() 
148 

78 
173 
147 

38 

36 
140 
136 

95 

68 
133 

74 

2;i4 

57 
209 

24 
184 
112 

51 

8 


ABSTftACt  OP  V0TE3. 


149 


ABSTRACT  OF  VOTKy  CAST. 
Vt  the  Cei^eral  election  in  the  State  of  Nebraska  on  November  4th,  1890, 
far  and  against  the  amen  Jnient  to  prohilai  the  sale  of  malt,  spirituous, 
and  vinous  liquors;  for  and  against  an  amendment  increasing  the  num- 
ber of  Judges  of  the  Supreme  Court:  and  for  and  against  an  amendment 
i;iC'reasiiig  the  salaries  of  Judges  of  the  Supreme  and  JJistrict  Courts 
wUh  ti;e  total  vote  cast  in  the  state. 


count:  !•:: 


Adams 

Antelope 

Banner 

Blaine 

Boone 

Box  Butte 

Brown 

Buflalo 

Butler 

Burt. . 


Cedar 

Chase  .... 

Cheyenne 

CherrV 

Clay.:.. 

Colfax. . 

Cuming 

Custer 

Dakota 

Dawes 

Dawson 

Deual 

Dixon 

Dodge 

Douglas 

Dundy 

Filmore 

Franklin 

Frontier 

Furnas 

Gage... 

Gartleld 

Gosper 

Grant. 

Greeley 

Hall 

Hamilton 

Harlan 

Hayes 

Hitchcock 

Hooker 

Holt... 

Howard 

Jefferson 

Johnson 

Kearney 

Key a  Paha 


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1044 

80 

118 

57 

27 

83;-) 

964 

51C 

343 

257 

383 

1326 

1928 

820 

1995 

65f 

649 

llO^ 

1019 

31^ 

420 

181 

246 

43(i 

56 

490 

151 

301 

938 

811 

302 

127fc 

740 

766 

2101 

641 

88 

658 

571 

665 

967 

m 

109 

564 

380 

2;i()J- 

539 

22*J.T«J 

117 

2i-"i 

1151 

414 

78 

649 

146 

690 

213 

697 

2016 

1497 

40 

239 

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528 

* 

50 

17- 

455 

674 

3165 

344 

1317 

IHI: 

471 

58 

662 

211 

208 

12 

44 

783 

663 

165 

701 

605 

968 

158 

1853 

158 

1533 

137 

433 

150 


ABSTRACT  01!"  VOTISS. 


ABSTRACT  OF  VOTES  CAST— Concluded. 


COUNTIES 


Keith. 

Kimball  .... 

Knox 

Lancaster  . . . 

Lincoln 

Lygan  

Loup 

Madison  

Merrick 

McPherson.. 

Nance 

Nemaha 

Nuckolls 

Otoe 

Pawnee 

Perkins  

Pierce 

Phelps 

Platte 

Polk 

Red  Willow. 
Richardson . . 

Rock 

Saline 

Sarpy  

Saunders 

Scotts  Bluff  . 

Seward 

Sheridan 

Sherman 

Sioux 

Stanton 

Thayer 

Thomas 

Thurston 

Valley 

Washinj,'ton 

Wayne 

Webster 

Wheeler 

York 


173 
95 
815 
4561 
901 
178 
117 


15 
614 

1397 

1478 

1402 

1482 
516 
333 

1610 
792 

1311 
693 

1596 
348 

2051 
366 

1955 
171 

1571 

1029 
508 
142 
249 

1197 

73 

291 

768 

1026 
512 

1262 
161 

1954 


210 

65 
997 

5215 

956 

94 

133 

1762 
740 
20 
630 

1389 
792 

2983 
731 
305 
713 
426 

2300 
678 
893 

2049 
274 

2119 

1220 

2656 
130 
723 
774 
704 
2.% 
398 

1340 
47 
381 
626 

1378 
669 
767 
178 

1510 


Totals 82292111728  76462  91084  86418 


114 

36 

767 

4306 

402 

80 

70 

858 

508 

24 

556 

900 

367 

2611 
611 
255 
337 
389 
111 
640 
668 

1619 
138 

1840 
615 

2021 
118 
886 
612 
469 
137 
172 
663 
45 
873 
671 
686 
222 
470 
137 

1213 


258 

87 
877 

4851 

1362 
181 
165 
891 

1012 

12 

612 

1550 

1593 

1493 

1350 
466 
564 

1533 
272 

1307 
738 

1626 
808 

2305 
451 

2062 
161 

1840 

1030 
637 
145 
886 

1247 

68 

181 

772 

1284 
644 

1413 
149 

2100 


240 
136 
1156 
6537 
1242 
167 

1075 
552 
28 
549 
208 
579 

1709 
382 
320 
364 
365 

1593 
370 
828 
600 
215 

169« 
819 

1449 
237 
898 
482 
211 
164 
560 

1024 
60 
616 
627 

1271 
588 
296 
96 

1263 


1402 

1085 
138 
27' 

1169 
614 
27C 


1120   944 


691921  615191  214861 


ABSTRACT  OP  VOTES. 


FOFULAB  VOTE  FOB  aOVEBITOB. 

1S94— Silas  A.  Hoicomb 97,815 

T.  J.  iMajors 94,613 

E.  A.  Gerrnrd  4,439 

P.  D.  Sturdevant, 6.985-203.8o2 

1S96— Silas  A.  Hoicomb 116.416 

John  TI.  McColl 94,723 

Robert  S.   Hibb 3,577 

Joel  Warner 1,£60 

Chas.  Sadilek 578-217.858 

POFUIiAB  VOTE  FOB  MEMBEBS   OF  CONGBESS. 

lS94-JesseB.  Strode,  Ist  Distrlcf:: 18,18y 

A.  H.  Weir,  "  12,730 

R.  A.  Hawley,  " 1,078-  31.993 

David  H.  Mercer,  2d  Distrfct 12,946 

D.  Clem.  Deaver,  "  3,962 

James  E.  Boyd,  "  8,165 

Geo.  D.  Woodbey,  "  393—  25,466 

Geo.  D.  Meiklejobn,  3d  District 16,513 

J.  M.  Devine,  "  11,738 

W.  A.  Hensley,  '•  8,019 

J.  C.  Thomns,  "  861—  37,131 

Eugene  J.  H^^incr,  4th  District 19,493 

W.L.Stark,  "  15,542 

S.  S.  Alley,  "  2,763 

Mrs.  C.  M.  Woodward,"  905-  38,703 

William  E.  Andrew.s,  5th  District 16,310 

W.  A.  McKeigan  "  15,450 

Thomas  F.  Ashby,  "  875 

O.  C.  Hubbell,  "  651—  33,280 

Omer  M.  Kern,  6th  District 17,077 

Matt.  Dougherty,        "  14,676 

William  Bone.  "  891—  32,044 

IS9G— Jefferson  H.  Broady,  Ist  District 17,1.17 

Jesse  B.  Strode  "  17.356 

Geoip:e  E.  Hampton.  "  21S 

Charles  K.  Smith,  "  429-35,140 

David  H.  Mercer,  '.'d  District 14,861 

Edward  R.  Daftit-.  "        1"'.^^« 

Charles  Watts,  "        202 

Georpe  W.  Woodbey,     •'         59—   28,408 

Siimuel  Maxwell.  3(1   District "'"^'JIqqV 

Ross  I>.  Hamraon<l,        " 18,6.33 

CM.  Griffith.  •'         254 

David  Drown,  "        ,,'It-  ' 

Wm.  L.  Stark.  4th  District -0.;>lo 

Eugene  J.  Haiuer        "        ''^■844 

B.Spurlock,  "  425 

H.E.  Dunphy,  "        ^f  ^ 

W.  H.  Dech.  "         ,    llj-  40.595 

B.  D.  Sutherland.  5th  District ]  'lH 

W.  E.  Andrews.  "         a^I 

R.  S.  Proud  ret,  "         ••••        4d3 


C.  W.  Preston, 


266 


J.S.Miller,  "        ,.IS-^**^^^ 

W.  L.  Green,  6th  District l!>.378 

A.  E.  Cody,  "         14.841 

A.  D.  George.  "        ^••» 

A.C.Sloan,  "        119-34.074 


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ABSTRACT  OF  VOTES. 


ABSTRACT  OF  VOTES  CAST 

November  &,  1894,  for  Members  of  Congress,  in  the  various  Congressional 
Districts. 

VIBST  CONGBBSSIONAL  DISTRICT. 


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64 
148 
103 
156 

2617 
1428 
7037 
145« 
2107 
1388 
2152 

1817 

Jolinson                                   ..                   

978 

4015 

Neniulia            ..         

1413 

Otoe 

1929 

906 

1672 

Totals. 

1078 

18185 

12730 

SECOND  CONORKSSIONAL  DISTRICT. 


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8 

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581 

3092 
394 

11019 
642 

294 

Sarpv 

61 

638 

521 

1285 

48 

Totals 

8165 

3962 

12946 

393 

ARSTRACT  OF  VOTK8. 


THIBD  CONOBSS8IONAI.  DI8TBICT. 


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993 

142 

908 

55 

Boone 

882 
740 

180 
167 

1005 
1241 

52 

Burt : „ 

54 

Cedar 

678 
744 

480 
566 

802 
737 

33 

Colfiax 

34 

Cuming „ 

438 

933 

1143 

32 

Dakota 

258 
718 

7^7 

355 
370 
1279 

602 

778 
1887 

23 

Dixon 

47 

Dodge 

90 

Knox 

861 
819 
730 

258 
708 
163 

1012 
1526 
876 

141 

Madison 

58 

Merriclc 

71 

672 
410 
188 

103 
291 
1223 

723 
602 
1009 

19 

Pierce 

19 

Platte 

65 

434 
241 
450 

281 
227 
842 

511 
842 

827 

18 

Thurston 

16 

Wayne 

35 

Totals 

11738 

8019 

16513 

851 

1 

yOUKTH  CONOBESSIONAJL  JBISTBICT. 


COUNTIES 


Butler 

Fillmore 

Gage 

Hamilton.... 

Jefferson 

Polk 

Saline 

Saunders 

Seward 

Thayer 

York 

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168 

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704 

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40 

1270 

283 

1729 

66 

832 

457 

2128 

208 

1850 

298 
237 

1561 
1548 

108 

1972 

2763 

49493 

1586 
1496 
1758 
1406 
968 
1160 
1137 
2190 
1346 
1073 
1422 

15642 


172 
33 
58 
93 
134 
100 
46 
70 


IGC 


ABSTRACT  OF  VOTES. 


FIFTH  CONGBESSIONAIi  DISTRICT. 


COUNTIES 

W 

W.  A.  MC- 

Kkighan, 

D.P.I. 

1915 
299 

1752 
288 
837 
783 

1190 
365 

1687 
759 
316 
448 

1019 

1214 
259 

1014 
997 

1128 

54 
24 
78 
14 
54 
47 
44 
36 
61 
27 
31 
23 
67 
65 
28 
34 
40 
48 

89 
4 

86 
7 
21 
14 
28 
13 
61 
66 
7 
.       16 
51 
44 
14 
52 
40 
38 

1604 

Chase           ..        

244 

Clay 

1543 

Dundy 

262 
870 

Frontier 

803 

1071 

Gosper 

589 

Hall 

1256 

882 

Hayes         

246 

526 

Kearney 

Nuckolls 

041 
1320 

270 

957 

Ked  Willow 

86& 

Webster 

1201 

Total 

10310 

875 

Ool 

15450 

SIXTH  conubessioxal 

1>1STK1CT 

COUNTIES 

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Banner 

Blaine.. 

7 

5 

21 

44 

15 

67 

38 

39 

86 

60 

81 

20 

8 

10 

11 

127 

2 

40 

13 

14 

4 

49 

3 

2 

2 

9 

12 

64 

14 

9 

1 

19 

5 

205 

83 
616 
519 
408 
1847 
502 
435 
1503 
682 
832 
810 
160 

63 
3o9 
063 

33 
710 
222 
22  < 
100 
1050 
113 
113 

42 
349 
227 
555 
480 
176 

60 
630 
101 

133 
54 

Boyd 

618 

358 

Buffalo    .  .                                  

1980 
678 

Cheyenne  

880 

1756 

Dawes  

882 

1060 

Deuel 

276 

Garfield  

154 
49 

Grant 

Greeley ., 

Holt 

Hooker 

698 

1277 

30 

1077 

KeHh 

KeyaRiha 

263 
873 

Kimball 

80 

Lincoln 

978 

IiOgan...4. 

liOUp „ 

McPherson.„ 

Rock _ : 

Scott's  Bluflf. 

Sheridan 

Sherman ^ 

Sioux 

101 
124 
43 
281 
161 

639 
170 

66 

Valley 

754 

Wheeler 

174 

Totals 

891 

14676 

17077 

AB8TKACT  OF  VOTES. 


Abstract  ol  votes  cast  at  the  general  eloctiou,  held  on  the  fifth  day  of  No- 
vember. A.  D.  1805. 


COUNTIES 


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112 

105 

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81 

978 

723 

30 

51 

15 

102 

167 

12 

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46 

57 

4 

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34 

42 

108 

433 

437 

33 

16 

T3 

521 

328 

26 

10 

65 

213 

308 

30 

5 

129 

1814 

1471 

117 

46 

107 

7h6 

1202 

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62 

350 

1344 

928 

303 

103 

351 

1252 

2020 

5W 

100 

255 

773 

800 

173 

22 

30 

20-,> 

259 

42 

7 

128 

488 

448 

41 

20 

83 

309 

449 

51 

28 

135 

1312 

1380 

W 

70 

190 

797 

525 

332 

35 

1 

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626 

911 

417 

30 

146 

1705 

1224 

38 

78 

290 

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443 

130 

27 

108 

820 

613 

43 

22 

75 

1275 

901 

44 

55 

176 

241 

25 

6 

249 

849 

675 

90 

62 

464 

1709 

1172 

232 

62 

4364 

4802 

9512 

994 

240 

20 

332 

283 

8 

10 

125 

1321 

iir2 

58 

64 

107 

823 

697 

59 

66 

42 

825 

622 

99 

21 

123 

1024 

1010 

81 

63 

900 

1290 

2503 

178 

186 

12 

lfc6 

129 

3 

5 

35 

510 

345 

13 

12 

13 

67 

79 

11 

4 

118 

540 

291 

47 

11 

258 

1253 

1328 

lf)7 

48 

98 

1165 

118& 

63 

69 

98 

851 

740 

34 

104 

78 

194 

297 

34 

7 

40 

521 

408 

10 

12 

165 

1170 

781 

64 

73 

2 

29 

11 

1 

2 

1 

130 

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624 

77 

33 

209 

722 

1161 

88 

67 

163 

615 

1165 

162 

114 

98 

1029 

779 

16 

41 

Adams  — 
Antelope . 
Banner... 
Blaine.... 

Boone 

Box  Butte 

Boyd 

Brown 

Buffalo.... 

Burt 

Butler 

Cass 

Cedar 

Chase   

Cherry 

Cheyenne . 

Clay 

Colfax 

Cuming . . , 

Custer 

Dakota . . . . 

Dawes 

Dawson.... 

Deuel 

Dixon 

Dodge 

Douglas.  . 

Dundy 

Fillmore  . 
Franklin.. 
Frontier  ., 
Furnas.... 

Gage   

Garfield... 

Gosper 

Grant 

Greeley..., 

Hall 

Hamilton. 

Harlan 

Hayes 

Hitchcock 

Holt 

Hooker.. 
Howard.   . 
Jefferson . , 
Johnson... 
Kearney.. 


ABSTKACT  OF  VOTES. 


ABSTRACT  OF  VOTES  CAUT— Continued 


JITDOK  SUPBEMB  COURT 

P 

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COUNTIES 

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Keith 

32 

215 

186 

18 

6 

..! 

KeyaPaha 

40 

247 

155 

20 

10 

••1 

Kimball 

3 

64 

68 

12 

3 

Knox 

139 
529 

88 

1100 

2557 

992 

999 

5420 

963 

81 

611 

35 

76 

451 

41 

Lancaster    

Lincoln  

LiOgan 

12 
4 

445 
8 

92 
103 
989 

39 

80 

96 

1234 

36 

9 
5 

206 

1 

1 
2 

68 

Loup  ...  . 

Madison 

McPhorson 

Merrick 

106 

837 

652 

67 

48 

Nance 

54 

765 

644 

27 

24 

Nemaha 

128 
109 
723 

1209 
1054 
1106 

1187 
877 
1532 

117 
41 
271 

72 
26 
112 

Nuckolls 

Otoe 

Pawnee 

93 
24 

457 
231 

1162 
163 

158 
8 

92 

7 

Perkins 

Phelps 

43 

219 
620 

1073 
490 
1128 

777 
459 
748 

18 

92 

403 

56 
25 
55 

Pierce 

Platte 

Polk 

42 

58 

1208 
811 

693 
905 

34 
65 

70 
35 

Red  Willow 

Richardson  

433 

680 

1992 

796 

108 

Rock 

40 

186 

312 

23 

5 

Saline 

435 

360 

267 

36 

905 
542 
1986 
142 

1401 
422 

1446 
215 

244 

128 
135 
22 

121 
36 
80 
10 

Saunders       

Scott's  Bluff 

Seward 

199 
102 

jD32 

796 

1435 
467 

202 
38 

34 
35 

Sheridan 

46 

47 

205 

248 

25 

629 
133 
334 
671 

27 

394 
152 
538 
1095 
45 

8 
27 
137 

200 

7 

10 

7 

14 

57 

Sioux 

Stanton 

Thomas 

Thurston 

262 

47 

248 
716 

887 
614 

37 

20 

12 
21 

Vallpy 

Washington 

327 

674 

972 

159 

42 

Wayne 

246 

401 

721 

126 

20 

Webster 

162 

942 

976 

56 

55 

Wheeler 

15 

160 

83 

5 

3 

york 

107 
18636 

1312 

1574 

59 

75 

1 

Totals 

70566 

79291 

10079 

4344 

ABSTRACT   OF    VOTES. 


Abstract  of  votes  cast  at  the  general  election  held  on   the   fifth  day  of 
November.  1S95,  for 


REGENTS  STATE  UNIVERSITY 


137 

no 

181 

370 

611 

140 

286 

132 

94 

68 

374 

777 

4473 

28 

224 

148 

71 

142 

736 

12 

51 

20 

139 

400 

132 

128 

83 

47 

184 

4 

170 

227 

211 

109 


17 

79 

76 

58 

68 

J76 

122 

490 

655 

279 

38 

101 


218 
100 


219 


207 
184 
109 


1119 
847 


1075 

579 
444 
170 

1642 
613 
837 
496 
467 
174 
426 
235 

1116 
522 
247 

1603 
274 
683 

1095 

90 

609 

488 

1813 
291 

1055 
713 


144 
481 
43 
438 
853 

1108 
763 
-184 
459 

1043 
19 
749 
574 
549 


109 

37 

8 

7 

35 

36 

78 

35 

53 

67 

316 

529 

243 

24 

53 

37 

102 

237 

434 

43 

128 

61 

38 

17 

113 

580 

1670 

5 

52 

50 


214 
7 
13 
11 
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102 
149 
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66 
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157 

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637 

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301 

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1067 
348 
413 
168 

1596 
553 
730 
523 
449 
153 
407 
212 

1072 
498 
235 

1539 
205 
600 

1082 
105 
578 
635 

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286 

1018 
713 


953 
137 

455 
33 

424 
875 

1046 
719 
164 
444 

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516 


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130 

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1168 
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547 
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1050 
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ABSTllACr  OF  VOTES  CAi^T— Continued. 


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Madison  .... 
Mcpherson;.. 

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Nance 

Nemaha 

Nuckolls 

Otoe 

Pawnee 

Perkins 

Phelps  

Pierce  

Platte 

Polk 

lied  Willow.. 
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Rock 

Saline  

Sarpy 

Saunders 

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171 


Abstract  of  votes  cast  at  the  general  election  held  on  the  third  day  of  No- 
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174 
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1560 

4431 

111729 

875 

2458 

810 

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ABSTRACT  OF  VOTES. 


\n 


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vember, A.  D.  1896,  for 


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ABSTRACT  OF  VOTES. 


ABSTRACT  OF  VOTES  C.\ST— Continued. 


COUNTIES 


Johnson 

Kearney 

Keith 

Key  a  Paha ... 

Kimball 

Knox 

Lancaster .... 

Lincoln 

Logan  

Loup 

Madison 

McPherson ... 

Merrick 

Nance 

Nemaha 

Nuckolls 

Otoe 

Pawnee 

Perkins 

Phelps 

Pierce  

Platte 

Polk 

Red  Willow.. 
Richardson... 

Rock , 

Saline 

fc'arpy 

Saunders 

Scott's  Bluff.. 

Seward 

Sheridan 

Sherman 

Sioux 

Stanton 

Thayer 

Thomas 

Thurston 

Valley 

Waahihgton.. 

Wayne 

We"b8ter 

Wheeler 

York 


Secretary  ov  State 


Totals. 


16 


D  P-I 


531 
32 
14 
19 
1 
49 

160 

54 

5 

1 

120 
2 

30 
31 
95 
60 

377 
27 
12 
11 
63 

173 
15 
34 

104 
20 

120 
75 

122 
'6 
63 
39 
14 
14 


27 


1^25 
937 
176 
171 
85 
946 

61.T5 

1041 

63 

107 

1650 

31 

844 

716 

1404 

1013 

2026 

1394 
155 
891 
551 

1192 
751 
927 

2138 
330 

1923 
585 

1894 
215 

1573 
4M 
410 
li6 
662 

1452 

33 

470 

642 

1412 
908 

1082 
92 

1825 


891    820  2149  5523   95023  109587  104314  2643   953   97468  5148 


Auditor  of  Public  AcoouNTe 


D  P-I 


1103 

1079 

232 

269 

•58 

1406 

5021 

1267 

124 

132 

1506 


52 
18 
54 
26 
G5 
1035  54 


863 
1752 
1290 
2220 


6 
11 

-•••*2 

3 

45 

8 

149 

S7 

33 

4 

1 

1 

46 

11 

2181 
1076 

854 
1968 
1406 

903 
2326 

190 
1803 
1061 
2521 

215 
1749 

799 

814 

262 

700 

1261 

70 

616 

847 
1245 

918 
1228 

156 
1707 


13 


42 


1343 

965 

176 

175 
96 

977 

6380 

1062 

64 

HI 
1693  107 


35 
914 
728 

1420 

1073 

2174 

1415 
157 

1010 
570 

1229 
780 
948 

2173 
340 

1942 
000 

1988 
230 

1592 
488 
414 
146 
589 

1458 

33 

477 

653 

1400 
922 

1084 
93 

1851 


1 

30 
22 
63 
49 

203 
24 
11 
12 
52 

167 
16 
32 
76j 
18! 

102; 
45 

107 
3 
68 
34 
11 
13 
65 
71 
5 
24 
32 
98 
74 
45 
6 
23 


ABSTRACT  OF  VOTES. 


175 


Abstract  of  votes  cast  at  the  general  election  held  on   the  3d  day  of  No- 
vember. A.  D.  lS9e,  for 


COUNTIES 


Treasurer 


Adams 

Antelope.... 

Banner 

Blaine 

Boone 

Box  Butte . ., 

Boyd 

Brown 

Buffalo 

Burt 

Butler 

Cass 

Cedar 

Chase 

Cherry , 

Cheyenne 

Clay 

Colfax 

Cuming 

Custer , 

Dakota 

Dawes , 

Dawson , 

Deuel 

Dixon 

Dodge  

Douglas 

Dundy 

Fillmore 

Franklin 

Frontier. 

Furnas 

Gage 

Garfield 

Gosper 

Grant 

Greeley ...I 

Hall...:. I 

Hamilton i 

Harlan 

Hayes | 

Hitchcock 

Holt I 

Hooker | 

Howard i 

Jefferson 1 


1688 


160 

75 

1062 

409 

472 

375 
1760 
1524 
1251 
2449 
1014 

256 

575 

429 
1610 

816 
1225 
1475 

584 

773 
1112 

264 

884 
2120 
11764 

267 
1608!  :J7 

817;  27 

763t  15 
1154  25 
3438  86 

150!      3 

3901      6 
86       2 

:i80i  6. 
18231  41 
i:«9i     31 

806|  35 

303 


41 


SL 


423 
864 
10 
684 
1594 


20 


D  P- 


20221 

11981 

110 

56  i 

1308 

529! 

593 

308: 

2397 

1204 

21721 

2342: 

1403' 

236: 

665 

441, 

17491 

1296 

1622 

2356; 

810 

876 

1367 

229 

1215 

1922 

108% 

281 

1710 

1032 

981 

1372 

2511 

206 

678 

85 

709 

1763 

1520, 

nil 

273 
4611 

1328! 

1197 
14361 


SuPT.  Pub.  lNSTRU<TrioN 


1733 

930 

150 

74 

1051 

402 

470 

360 

1784 

14fr4 

1229 

2467 

1032 

245 

574 

418 

1635 

800 

1243 

1506 

582 

723 

nil 

271 

881 
2061 
10043 

205 
1638 

802; 

771 
1120 
3447 

150 

405 
84: 

374 
1831 
1318 

827 

302 

416 


SL 


11 


20  45 
10  137 
12  121 


D  P-1 


.501 

ooj 

58 

13 1  41 

5l  30 

9  71 

33|  3124 

844i;«6 

5i  •  5 


18i 


805' 


2 

9|  36 

15  91 

8!  51 

Hi  24 

Ij  19 

2  7 

15  53 


678|  17!  '^      1194 
1.588!   8  63!  1341 


1913 

1190 

119 

•57 

1280 

542 

570 

306 

2307 

1193 

2115 

2120 

1298 

248 

643 

441 

1715 

1291 

1521 

2288 

776 

879 

1318 

244 

1148 

1937 

11082 

267 

1020 

981 

822 

1247 

2431 


714 
1080 
1514 
1038 
281 
450 
1372 


P-N 


16 

27 
5 
42i 
47 
52 
88 
22 
8 
14 
13 
37 
23 
19 
63! 
12! 
23 
24 
6 

36i 
00| 

"I 

41! 
251 
19! 

401 
1041 

51 


ABSTRACT  OP  VOTES. 


ABSTRACT  OP"  VOTES  C\ST— Continued. 


COUNTIES 


Johnson 

Kearney 

Keim 

Keya  Paha 

Kimball 

Knox.i. 

Lancaster.. 

IJncoln 

Logan , 

Loup 

Maaison 

McPhersoa 

Merrick 

Nance 

Nemaha 

Nuckolls 

Otoe 

Pawnee 

Perkins 

Phelps 

Pierce 

Platte 

Polk 

Red  Willow... 
Richardson.... 

Rock 

Saline.. 

Sarpy 

Saunders 

Scott's  Blutt... 

Seward 

Sheridan 

Sherman 

Sioux 

Stanton , 

Thayer 

Thomas 

Thurston 

Valley 

Washington... 

Wayne 

Webster 

Wheeler 

York.. 

Totals 


Treasuber 


1381 
961 
178 
180 
93 
983 

6382 

1078 

09 

115 

1711 

34 

923 

735 

1462 

1092 

2156 

1191 
157 
914 
578 

1232 
786 
879 

2247 
343 

1976 
608 

1963 
230 

1(50«; 
507 
406 
151 
606 

1486 

34 

486 

672 

1456 
940 

1090 
95 

1869 


P  SL 


N   D  D  P-I 


261  60 


17 


1156 

1072 

239 

281 

59 

1515 

5270, 

1307 

125 

132 

1616 

43, 

979 

901 

1794 

1349 

2313 

1100 

228 

1176 

890 

2010 

1484 

1055 

2414 

201 

1849 

1091 

2640 

224 

1&37 

820 

843 

267 

744 

1320 

68 

611 

876 

1335 

988 

1.307 

167 

17.38 


98314  2628  746  9615222  109489  96143  1249  5966  106737  2969 


SuPT.  Pub.  Instbuction 


R   SL  D 


1395 
915 
178 
180 
79 
965 

6351 

1060 

66 

112 

1693 
34 
915 
716 

1409 

1122 

2213 

1444 
152 
919 
572 

1180 
770 
958 

2244 
341 

1972 
596 

1972 
227 

1601 
512 
410 
146 
595 

1461 

31 

477 

671 

1389 
951 

1107 
91 

18.56 


D  P-I  P-N 


21  49 

21  37 

6!  10 

31  18 

1|  5 

7  65 

49  165 

9  37 

....  4 

171  131 


11681  63 


1143 

2:38 

286 

65 

1436 

6103 

1289 

121 

129 

1508 

40 

974 

872 

1779 

1288 

2384 

1069 

226 

1155 

^60 

2096 

1474 

925 

2328 

195 

1749 

1070 

2536 

2-23 

1783 

843 

808 

273 

711 

1276 

74 

617 

815 

1295 

910 

1229 

159 

1740 


ABSTRACT  OF  VOTES. 


177 


AbBtract  of  votf^s  cast  at   the  general  election  held   on  the  3(3  day  of  No- 
vember, A.  D.  1896,  for 


COUNTIES 


AfTORNK  Y-GEN  KRAI, 


Adams j  | 

Antelope j , 

Banner 

Blaine < , 

Boone j ' 

Box  Butte !  i 

Boyd |1 

Brown j  I 

Buffalo 

Burt I ' 

Butler i ; 

Cass i  i 

Cedar !: 

Chase ; , 

Cherry '  j 

Cheyenne >  ] 

Clay 1 

Colfax i 

Cuming I 

Custer I 

Dakota i  | 

Dawes j  ] 

Dawson 

Deuel II 

Dixon ,  I 

Dodge ; 

Douglas !  t 

Dundy i  i 

Fillmore 

Franklin 

Frontier 

Furnas 

Gage 

(jfatfield 

Gosper 

Grant 

Greeley 

Hall 

Hamilton.... 

Harlan 

Hayes 

Hitchcock... 

Holt 

Hooker 

Howard 

lefferson 


1747 

9G7 

164 

77 

1081 

415 

478 

•6fib 

1805 

1535 

1251 

252.5 

1043 

245 

5y9 

426 

1()45 

K15 

1246 

1502 

589 

781 

1117 

280 

896 

2198 

11581 

273 

1628 

.S3 1 

765 

1128 

3455 

151 

101 

85; 

373 

18671 

13551 

824  i 

308i 

4161 


SL!   N 


10 
699 
1573. 


8 
12' 

81 
9i 

^l 

205; 

i; 

8 

21 

10! 


« 

S      " 

0H 


D  P-I 


10      66 


47 


155 
46 
....[  15 
6  42 
3  34 
12 1  37 
6'  127 
114 

;i4 

10 

4 

3 

4 

9 
12 
54 

1 
11 

n 

8 

:'.7 

1 

4 


■■"5 

"'"o 

15 

3 

4 

13 

4 

•29 

58 
41 
41 
30 
74 
252 
773 
6 
49 
28 
22 
36 
179 
2 
20 
11 
41 
82 
28 
23 
16| 
13 
72 

2 

42 

91  721 


1996 

1208 

116 

55 

1313 

545 

584 

310 

2376 

1166 

2146 

2250 

138S 

242 

iio2 

448 

1715 

1323 


Commissioner  Public  Landk 
and  buildinos 


62 
35 
5 
7 

46 
32i 
45 
9 
56 
34 
50 
134 
47 


1623 
2357 

14 

39| 

803 

131 

m 

111 

1339 

:50i 

239 

31 

120.3 

371 

1979 

6.5 

■nui 

166 

280 

6 

1732 

20 

1025 

15 

982 

17 

1380 

19 

2528 

82 

205 

1 

1675 

7 

85 

1 

721 

4 

1787 

22 

1526 

31 

1114 

22 

281 

3 

463 

3 

1346 

33 

38 

1210 
1437 

d 

10^  ]1| 
16:  40 
181 !  31 1 
201 1  46 
191  112 
-    97 


35 

9 
16 

3 

38 

32|  14 
30:  38 
0.}  28 
13.  11 


10 

15 

2o! 

50' 

2o; 

30'  15 


34 

6 

7 

3 

41 

10 

49 

18 

236 

165 

6 

2 

36 

12 

23 

17 

15 

c, 

22 

16 

89 

33 

2 

1 

9 

4 

2 

1 

3 

3 

37 

12 

36 

12 

34 

32 

7 

1 

4 

39 

23 

17 

8 

36 

10 

1706 

939 

165 

78 

1051 

409 

471 

375 

1781 

1527 

12.35 

2515 

1032 

246 

570 

423 

1616 

816 

1231 

1478 

584 

746 

1105 

278 

899 

2201 

115.37 

271 

1594 

801 

766 

1119 

3415 

l.W 

390 

85 

376 

1813 

1342 

806 

316 

415 

871 

10 

695 

1574 


SL 


D  P-ll 


1993 

1212 

113 

56 

1309 

539 

602 

310 

2375 

1192' 

2187; 

2222: 

1382: 

248' 

<'»45 

4401 

1724 

1305 

1618' 

23.56; 

8141 

876 

1344' 

244 

1217; 

19491 

10795 

275 

171li 

10271 

9961 

1383! 

24911 

2051 

675 

80 

711 

1811 

1521 

1101 

266 

471 

1313 

37 

1149' 

14081 


ABSTRACT  OF  VOTES. 


ABSTRACT  OF  VOTES  CA.ST— Continued. 


Attohnky-General 


COUNTIES 


R 


SL     N 


Johusoii I 

Kearney 

Keith 

Key  a  Paha .. 

Kimball 

Knox 

Lancaster..  . 

Lincoln 

Logan  

Loup 

Madison 

McPherson .. 

Merrick 

Nance 

Nemaha , 

Nuckolls 

Otoe 

Pawnee 

Perkins 

Phelps 

Pierce  

Platte 

Polk 

Red  Willaw. 
Richardson. 

Rock 

Saline 

t-arpy 

Saunders.... 
Scott's  Bluff 

Seward 

Sheridan..... 
Sherman — 

Sioux 

Stanton 

Thayer 

Thomas 

Thurston.... 

Valley 

Washington 

Wayne 

Webster 

Wheeler 

York 


13701 
868! 
178i 
185 
91 
978 

6311 

1090 

69 

118 

1729 

36 

939 

747 

1461 

1090 

2281 

1445 
158 
916 
597 

1244 
801 
989 

2293 
349 

1944 
623 

2018 
239 

1611 
515 
414 
156 
.612 

1488 
33 
486 
666 

1468 
971 

1112 
9G 

1859 


6 

26 

6 

^ 

1 

■•■■4 

35 

no 

' 

1 

10 

...'.' 

13 

6 
22 

3 

22 

39 

11 

4 

12 

22 



7 

6 

3 

5 

1 

10 

3 

1 

8 

4 

6 

7 

1 

D    D 


CoMMissioNEB  Public  Lands 

ANii  BUILDINOS 


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xm\  261 
1125;    29 

246      ■  5 

295       9 

62'  ll 
1509!  52 
5274'  1S6 
1301 i     31 

126: 

131! 

15841     41 

43 

970     46 


17811  39 

13621  18 

2443  43 

1108]  53 

2281  5 

1188  28 

880  14 

20781  21 

1456]  27 

9i7  21 

2413  39 


203 

1901 

1085 

2617 

223 

1842 

84« 

838 

276 

736 

1336 

70 

W2 

87o 

1311 

976 

1302 

162 

1756 


:otals 99067  730  907  5115  109774  2067  4904  2523  1155  97856  917,109268 


421  27 
27 

8 
18 

3 
58 


28!  9 

31 

11:  2 

2  1 

46  8 

139!  106 

331  6 


R 


1376 
975 
178 
184 
91 
<!;74 

6263 

1065 
67 
113 

1724 
35 
925 
(>48 

1445 

1088 

2214 

1440 
153 
929 
584 

1226 
790 
973 

2210 
.341 

1854 
606 

1970 
233 

1594 
495 
413 
152 
606 

1^74 
33 
483 
651 

1443 
964 

1082 
93 

1843 


SL 


D  P-I! 


1167] 

1103' 

249 

279 

60 

1503' 

5439 

1292 

125 

133 

1589 

43 

969 

871 

1797 

1357 

2405 

1112 

228 

1171 

897 

2024 

1461 

946 

2384 

203 

1898 

1087 

2609 

217 

1860 

M3 

834 

270 

749 

1333 

69 

637 

868 

1315 

962 

1300 

160 

1752 


ABSTBACT  OP  VOTES. 


Lbstract  of  votes  cast  at  the  general  election  held  on  the  ;{d  day  of  No- 
vember A.  D,  ISDG,  for 


COUNTIES 


Regent  op  the  University 


SL 


Adams 

Antelope  ... 

Banner 

Elaine 

Boone 

Box  Butte . 

Boyd 

Brown 

Biiftdlo ;    10 

Burt 11 


Butler 

Cass 

Cedar 

Chase 

Cherry 

Cheyenne- 
Clay 

Colfax 

Cuming 

Custer 

Dakota lo 

Dawes |     4 

Dawson |      5 

Deuel 

Dixon  

Dodge I    23 

DougiaiL.. i  289 

Dundy 

Fillmore... 
Franklin  ... 

Froniier 

Furnas 

Gage 

tiarfield 

Gosper 

Grant 

Greeley 

Hall 

Hamilton.. 

Harlan 

Hayes 

Hitchcock. 

Holt 

Hooker 

Howard [    14 


19 


D  P-I 


1945 

1161 

113 

55 

1312 

528 

584 

302 

2346 

1180 

21.S6 

2244 

1363 

241 

633 

145 

1(«8 

1299 

1598 

2363 

797 

809 

1314 

23ti 

1255 

1843 

10549 

275 

1675 

1009 

984 

1342 

2464 

205 

654 

78 

703 

1748 

1492 

1089 

274 

470 

128:5 

37 

1J12 


o  G  3  a 


Z3  (WO 


Yes      No 


946, 

165 

78 

1069 

411 

473 

377 

1791 

1541 

1253 

245R|i 

1027  ■ 

239 

570 

431 

1631 

800 

1219 

1522 

580 

757 

1118 

276 

829 

2190 

11787 

275 

1625 

812 

764 

1137 

3408 

156 

396 

85 

374 

1826 

1336 

811 

299 

418 

871 

9 

693 


1388 
971 
147 
87 

1129 
552 
621 
331 

1910 

1039 

1159 

1704 
875 
174 
562 
511 

1304 
809 

1133 

1764 
507 
862 

1269 
265 
846 

1693 

13405 

308 

1520 
830 
739 
650 

1732 
148 
623 
38 
724 

1589 
700 
876 
367 
379 

1298 

38 

756 


662 
438 

19 

17 
426 
138 
133 

98 
732 
491 
561 
558 
479 

55 
310 
138 
513: 
373 1 
7271 
693: 

2sn 

26  ti 
397! 

75; 
4531 

6671 

3ia5' 

104, 

319' 

306 

423- 

913 

1446 

136 

1.54 

83 

90 

5521 

736 

3151 

132  i 

270! 

l| 
5.59. 


ABSTRACT  OF  VOTES. 


ABSTRACT  OF  VOTES  CAST— CoDtiiiued. 




Regent  of 

THE  University 

^ 

Ill's 

<-Ol'NTlES 

S5 

o 
>-> 

w 

H 

3 

ent  to  the  Co 
ting  to  the  n 
8  of  the  Su 
d  their  term 

^ 

o 

^< 

< 

X 

5 

•-5 

1-3 

c 

^ 
^ 

SL 

N 

1' 

D 

D  P-I 

"  1 

Yes  1    No 

Jeiterson 

10 
2 
5 
3 

12 

27 
8 
1 

28 
31 
33 
4 
9 
3 

66 

149 

36 

1 

2 

38 

'"51 
16 
43 
31 
49 
61 

5 
37 
19 
26 
21 
24 
52 

6 
55 
28 
51 

8 
19 
19 
12 

1 
14 
27 

1 

8 
13 
22 
12 
24 

2 
28 

29 

10 

17 

3 

54 

IM 

35 

3 

0 

113 

••23 
29 
64 
39 

176 
22 
11 
13 
48 

151 
16 
29 
95 
17 
79 
46 

110 
5 
65 
45 
11 
18 
58 
62 

i 

28 
85 
57 
50 
0 
28 

1388 

1143 

1071 

245 

285 

64 

1481 

5142 

1257 

125 

133 

1560 

43 

942 

871 

1745 

1333 

2301 

1109 

228 

1163 

850 

1992 

1421 

913 

2357 

198 

1811 

1041 

2531 

217 

18:53 

820 

8^10 

267 

722 

1301 

70 

647 

857 

1280 

950 

1256 

158 

1713 

1579 

1370 
958 
176 
181 
89 
982 

6407 

1065 
68 
112 

1729 
36 
919 
755 

1438 

1096 

2248 

1436 
156 
916 
579 

1230 
80S 
9(56 

2229 
346 

1987 
604 

1979 
233 

If.iri 
494 
410 
1.54 
617 

1492 
31 
479 
(i71 

1453 
952 

1108 
96 

1867 

835 
559 
584 
287 
169 
114 

1031 

4525 

1340 
109 
98 

1014 
35 
752 
829 
351 
982 

1300 
6^9 
252 
618 
471 

1026 
840 

1086 

1158 
420 

1150 
596 

1507 
162 

1117 
534 
640 
236 
43() 

1367 
80 
2:')() 
7-17 
999 
570 
953 
161 

1282 

512 

Johnson 

Kearney 

965 
636 

65 

107 

9 

395 

2565 

294 

27 

52 
361 

17 
230 
274 
■  .739 
418 
945 
549 

70 
481 
109 
511 
482 
328 
6M 

45 
662 
279 
663 

65 
899 
343 
291 
102 
3  IS 
474 

13 
107 
232 
539 
240 
379 

22 
583 

Keith.  .     . 

Keya  Paha 

Kimball 

Knox 

7 

39 

6 

8 

84 

6 

Lancaster 

Lincoln  ... 

Logan  .*. 

Loup 

2 

7 

■'"10 

2 
12 

4 
29 
15 

2 
17 

4 
11 
29 

9 
11 

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7 

17 

6 

1 

1 
2 
1 
2 
6 

Madison ,., 

McPherson 

Merrick.  .. 

10 

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3 
8 
2 
14 
1 

Nance 

Nemaha 

Nuckolls  . 

Otoe 

Pawnee 

Perkins 

Phelps 

Pierce  

Platte 

Polk 

5 
4 
8 
3 
1 
5 
5 
14 
10 
11 

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11 

Red  Willow 

Richardson 

Rock 

Saline 

J^arpy 

Saunders 

Scott's  Blutt..... 
Seward 

Sheridan 

Sherman 

Sioux 

Stanton 

Thayer ...  . 

7 
4 

Thomas 

Thurston 

1 
3 
8 
4 

"  i 

2 

6 
2 
4 

9 

1 
14 

Vallev.. 

Washington 

Wayne.  .... 

Webster 

Wheeler 

York 

Totals 

763 

866 

2391 

4781 

106967 

98651 

84579 

37896 

ABSTBAOT  OF   VOTES  OABT. 


Abstract  of  Votes  Cast. 

November  3,  1896,  for    Members   of    CongreBs,  in  the  Six    Congressiona 
Districts. 


CONGRKSSMAN — 

First  Dist. 

COUNTIES 

CONGBESSMAN 

Second  Dist. 

— 

COUNTIES 

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1237 
5418 
1885 
2547 
1165 
2514 

36 
27 
75 
17 
34 
14 
15 

57 
IS 
128 
53 
59 
54 
60 

2568 
1368 
0141 
1444 
2202 
1407 
2226 

Douglas 

10796 
1127 
1363 

12703 
657 
1501 

153 
22 
27 

51 

Joliuson 

Laucnster 

6 

Washington  .. 
Totals 

2 

Otoe 

13288 

14861 

202 

59 

Fftwnee 

Richardson.... 

Totals 

17137 

218 

429 

17356 

182 


ABSTKACT   OF   VOTES  CAST. 


Abstract  of  Votes  Ca.st—CoDtinued. 


COUNTIES 


Antelope, 
Boone  .... 

Burt 

Cedar 

Colfax  .... 
Cumiug.  . 
Dakota.. 
Dixon  .... 
Dodge  .... 

Knox 

Madison. 
Merrick  .. 

Nance 

Pierce 

Platte  .... 
Stanton.. 
Thurston 
Wayne.... 

Totals. 


CONURKSSMAN- 

Third  Dist. 


521    254    18633    23487 


D  P-I 


943 

1208 

1053 

1309 

1501 

11S4 

1029 

14.55 

829 

1394 

1240 

1752 

592 

S57 

901 

1272 

2171 

2304 

1000 

1543 

1758 

1712 

921 

1008 

741 

940 

598 

929 

1273 

209S 

627 

810 

474 

677 

982 

10.15 

CONGREeSMAN 

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Fillmore... 

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Hamilton. 
Jefferson .. 
Polk    . 

8 
8 

15 
2 

12 
4 
5 

45 
8 
3 
4 

45 
37 

170 
19 
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12 
72 

103 
81 
64 
31 

1246 
1627 
3413 
1308 
1605 
781 
1973 
2001 
1594 
1465 
1831 

38 
27 
91 
18 
22 
45 
51 
42 
14 
25 
52 

2188 
1732 
2535 
1602 
1462 
1472 

Saline 

Saunders.. 

Seward 

Thayer 

York 

1917 

•:635 

1841 
1358 
1773 

Totals... 

114 

697 

18844 

425 

20515 

*By  Petition. 


ABSTRACT  OF  VOTES  CAST. 


Abstract  of  Votes  Cast— Continued. 


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398 

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917 
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1095 

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4 

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3 
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16 
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24 

3 

21 
17 

4 
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9 
24 

43 
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31 

17 

31 

17 

66 

20 

17 

5 

21 

35 

9 

9 

22 

44 

2050 
255 

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17-:9 

Dundy 

287 

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Furnas 

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Hall 

1043 
996 

1423 
676 

1773 

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Kearnpy 

Nuckolls 

Perkins 

Phelps 

1127 

280 
478 
1115 
1409 
2:;8 
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Red  Willow. 
Webster 

937 
1318 

Totals 

15621 

153 

266 

413 

18332 

COUNTIES 


Banner 

Blaine 

Box  Butte. 

Boyd  

Brown  

Buffalo 

Cherry 

Cheyenne  . 

Custer 

Dawes 

Dawson  ... 

Deuel 

Garfield.... 

Grant 

Greeley 

Holt 

Hooker  ... 
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Keith 

Key  a 

Paha 

Kimball  .. 

Lincoln 

LoKan 

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Hock 

Scott's 

Bluff 

Sheridan... 
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Sioux 

Thomas 

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92 
432 
515 
382 

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603 
460 

1515 
773 

1152 
313 
156 
83 
410 
847 
10 
821 
187 

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550 

24 

605 

4 

312 

53 

2433 

11 

681 

19 

459 

56 

2354 

21 

894 

34 

1396 

9 

236 

5 

199 

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99 

4 

727 

38 

1289 

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39 

22 

1138 

6 

248 

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297 

5 

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34 

1311 

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142 

2 

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4 

226 

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223 

23 

867 

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862 

1 

279 

1 

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3 

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149 

1086 

1265 

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4480 

1410 

1008 

4267 

1873 

2705 

612 

381 

206 

1214 

2448 

52 

2108 

469 

512 
169 
2600 
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267 

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605 

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1515 
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Custodian  Cloak-room,  D.  Coagrove,  Omaha. 
Assistant  Custodian  Cloak-room,  L.  S.  Bruno,  Central  City. 
Custodian  Chief  Clerk's  Room,  John  Vanderburg,  Indianola. 
Time-keeper,  E.  W.  Crane,  North  Platte. 
Mail  Carrier,  D.  S.  Burkhard,  Rowland. 
Doorkeeper,  J.  C  Hainmang,  Arlington. 
Assistant  Doorkeeper,  Charles  Biven,  Tecumseh. 
Speaker's  Private  Secretary,  W.  N.  Silver,  Wahoo. 
Engrossing  and  Enrolling  Clerk,  Lena  Bromer,  West  Point. 
John  L.  Cleaver,  Falls  City. 
Anna  Clegg,  Falls  City. 
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"  Sarah  E.  Striker,  Wahoo. 

••  George  C.  Kidd,  Nebraska  City. 

Bill  Clerk.  J.  M.  Whisnand.  Gilead. 
.\S8l8tant  Bill  Clerk,  H.  F.  Wasmund,  Kushville. 
Proof-reader,  Mary  Fairbrother,  Omaha. 
Assistant  Proof-reader,  Arthur  L.  Anderson,  Omaha. 
Copy-holder,  Arthur  Frantz,  Tobias. 

"  Jesse  Pfluc,  Exeter. 

Clerk  of  Committee  on  Elections,  C.  H.  Challis,  Ulysses. 

"  "  on  Accounts  and  Expenditures,  C.  N.  Miller,  Alma. 

Clerk  of  Committee  on  Claims,  J.  B.  Anderson,  Holdrege. 

"  on  Finance,  Ways,  and  Means,  J.  C.  Low,  Stella. 

**  *•  on  Judiciary,  Miss  IL  L.  Knapp,  Omaha. 

Clerk  of  Committee  on    Engrossed   and    Enrolled    Bills,   J.    H.   Graves. 
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Clerk  of  Committee  on  Citips  and  Towns,  Edwin  Norrls,  Omaha. 
Watchman,  C.  Marshall,  Riverton. 

"  Henry  Taylor,  Spring  Green, 

Night  Watchmen,  W.  F.  Maddox,  Aurora. 
Janitor,  W.  S.  Leiter,  Seward. 

Thomas  Harrington,  Central  City. 
D.  K.  Chaney,  Stella. 
Custodian  of  Basement,  M.  McGee,  Lincoln. 
Fireman,  H.  B.  Schneringer,  Callaway. 
Boot  Black,  G.  H.  Holly,  Lincoln. 
Carpenter,  George  F.  Daggett,  Lincoln. 
Chief  Clerk's  Messenger,  O.  C.  Teel,  Red  Cloud. 
Page,  Ted  Schneringer,  Bradshaw. 
Rov  Platte,  Lincoln. 
Willie  Smith,  Salem. 
Fred  Wiebe,  Grand  Island. 
Speaker's  Page,  Simon  Kelle.y ,  Lincoln. 
Page,  William  Hensley,  Columbus. 
James  Boyd,  Stark. 
William  Cunningham.  Palmyra, 
li.  C.  Edvvards,  Humboldt. 
'•       Harvey  Grosvenor,  Central  City, 
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STATE   aOVBBNMBNT. 


STATE  GOVERNMENT. 

Governor. 
Hon.  SiLis  A.  Holcomb,  Broken  Bow,  Custer  County. 

Iiieutenant  Governor. 
Hon.  James  E.  Harris,  TalmaRe,  Nemaha  county. 

Secretary  of  State. 
Hon.  Wm.  F.  Pobteb,  Clarks,  Merrick  county. 

Treasurer. 
Hon.  J.  B.  Meseeve,  McCook,  Red  Willow  county. 

Auditor  of  Public  Accounts. 
Hon.  John  F.  Cornell,  Verdon,  Richardson  county. 

Commissioner  of  Public  Iiands  and  Building's. 
Hon.  Jacob  V.  Wolfe,  Lincoln,  Lancaster  county. 

Attorney  General. 
Hon.  C.  J.  Smyth,  Omaha,  Douglas  county. 

Superintendeat  of  Public  Instruction. 
Hon.  W.  R.  Jackson,  O'Neil,  Holt  county. 


EXECUTIVE  DEPARTMENT. 

Governor,  Hon.  Silas  A.  Holcomb. 
Pbivate  Secretary,  Hon.  Benton  Maret. 
Stenographer,  Henry  Blum. 
Chief  Clkrk,  Frank  L.  Mary. 
Stbnographeb,  Charles  Q.  De  France. 

Secretary  of  State. 
Secretary,  Wm.  F.  Porter. 
Deputy,  O.  E.  Weesner. 
Book  Keeper,  Theodore  Mahn. 
Record  Clerk,  S,  E.  Starret. 
Clerk,  Miss  Nellie  Pnrcell. 
Stenographer,  L.  W.  Shrader. 

State  Treasurer. 
Treasurer,  Hon.  J.  B.  Meserve. 
Deputy,  Samuel  Patterson. 
Book  Keeper,  W.  H.  Bradbury. 
Stenographer  and  Book  Keepbr,  C.  J.  West. 

Auditor  of  Public  Accounts. 
Auditor,  Hon.  John  F.  Cornell,  Verdon. 
Deputy,  C.  C.  Pool,  Verdon. 
Insurance  Deputy,  Samuel  Lichty,  Falls  City. 
Book  Keeper,  J.  A.  Simpson,  Auburn. 
Bond  Clerk,  June  Abbott,  Lincoln. 
Recorder,  J.  M.  Whitaker,  Falls  City. 
Insurance  Clerk,  W.B.  Price,  Lincoln. 
Stbnoobaphkb,  Miss  Mamie  Muldoon. 


STATE    GOVERNMENT. 


Commissioner  of  Public  Lands  and  Buildingrs. 

CoMMissiONEB,  Hon.  Jacob  V.  Wolfe,  Liucoln. 
Depdty,  Elon  W.  Nelson,  Klchland. 
Chief  Clehk,  J.  S.  Hyatt,  Lincoln. 
Draftsman,  Alex.  Schlegel,  University  Place. 
Book  Keepeb,  D.  D.  Lynch,  Platte  Center. 
Sale  Contract  Clerk,  Myrtle  Shreve,  Fremont. 
Book  Keeper,  Albert  Sjoberj?.  Omaha. 
Lease  Contract  Clerk,  J.  H.  Graves. 
Assignment  Clerk,  Rhoda  PI.  Stewart,  Lincoln. 
Assignment  Clerk,  Cora  B.  King,  Schuyler. 
Delinquent  Clerk,  Miss  Clara  Leese,  Lincoln. 

Attorney  G-eneral. 

Attorney  General,  Hon.  C.  J.  Smyth,  Omaha. 
Depcty,  Kd.  P.  Smith,  Omaha. 
Stenographer,  George  F.  Corcoran,  York. 

State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction. 

Superintendent,  Hon.  W.  R.  Jackson.  O'Neil. 
Deputy,  C.  F.  Beck,  Lyons. 
Stenographer,  Bernice  M.  Jackson,  Lincoln. 
Custodian  op  Supplies,  Alex  Bentley. 


SUFRrSSE  COURT. 

Chief  Justice,  Hon.  A.  M.  Post,  Columbus. 

Supreme  Judge,  Hon.  T.  O.  C.  HarriHou,  Grand  Island. 

Supreme  Judge,  Hon.  T.  L.  Norval.  Seward. 

(  Hon.  Hob<rt  Ryan,  Lincoln. 
Commissioners   •]  Hon.  John  M.  Ragan,  Hastings. 

(  Hon.  Frank  Iuvine,  Omnba. 
Clerk  and  Reporter,  D.  A.  Campbell,  Lincoln. 
Deputy  Clehk,  W.  B.  Rose,  Lincoln. 
Assistant  Clerk,  E.  J.  Streight,  Lincoln. 
Stenographer,  Miss  Cora  Ouiealt,  Lincoln. 
Stenographer,  E.  C.  Brunson. 
Library  Clerk,  B.  M.  Howell,  Lincoln. 
Assistant  Reporter,  M.  E.  Collins,  Lincoln. 
Baliff,  J.  H.  Naden,  Lincoln. 
Baliff,  O.  D.  Harris,  Lincoln. 


STATE   GOVERNMENT. 


STATE  BOARDS  AND  A&iSISTANTS. 


Banking-  Department. 

President,  John  V.  Cornell,  State  Auditor. 
Member,  J.  B.  Meserve,  State  Treasurer. 
Membek,  C.  J.  Sraytli,  Attorney  General. 
Secretary,  P.  L.  Hall.  Mead. 
Clerk,  H.  Matheisen,  Omaha. 

State  Bank  Bxaminers. 

Reuben  Lipp,  Pawnee  City. 
John  F.  Coad,  Jr.,  Omaha. 
Frank  A.  Reynolds,  Gothenburg. 
Victor  E.  Wilson,  Omaha. 

State  Board  of  Hdacational  lands  and  Funds. 

Silas  A.  Holcomb,  Governor,  President. 

W.  F.  Porter,  Secretary  of  State. 

J.  B.  Meserve,  State  Treasurer. 

C.  J.  Smyth,  Attorney  General. 

J.  V.  Wolfe,  Commissioner  Public  Lands  and  Buildings,  Secretary. 

State  Board  Public  lands  and  Buildings. 

J.  V.  Wolfe,  Commissioner  Public  Lands  and  Buildings,  President. 

W.  F.  Porter,  Secretary  of  State,  Secretary. 

J.  B.  Meserve,  Treasurer. 

C.  J.  Smyth,  Attorney  General. 

State  Board  of  Purchases  and  Supplies. 

S.  A.  Holcomb,  Governor,  President. 

W.  F.  Porter,  Secretary  of  State. 

J.  B.  Meserve.  State  Treasurer. 

C.  J.  Smyth,  Attorney  General. 

J.  V.  Wolfe,  Commissioner  of  Public  Lauds  and  Buildings,  Secretary. 

State  Board  of  Equalization. 

S.  A.  Holcomb,  Governor. 

J.  F.  Cornell,  Auditor  Public  Accounts. 

J.  B.  Meserve,  State  Treasurer. 

State  Board  of  Printing-. 

J.  F.  Cornell,  Auditor  of  Public  Accounts. 
J.  B.  Meserve,  State  Treasurer. 
W.  F.  Porter,  Secretary  of  State. 

State  Board  of  Escheats. 

S.  A.  Holcomb,  Governor. 

W.  R.  Jackson,  State  Superintei^dent  of  Pqblic  Instruction. 


STATIC   GOVERNMENT.  209 


State  Board  of  Eealtli. 


S.  A.  Holcomb,  Governor,  President. 

C.  J.  Smyth,  Attorney  General. 

W.  R,  Jackson,  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  Secretary. 

Secretaries. 

F.  D.  IToldeman,  M.  D.,  Ord. 
C.  F.  Stewart,  .M.  D.,  Auburn. 
B.  F.  Bully,  M.  t).,  Lincoln. 

B.  F.  Cruinmer,  M.  D.,  Omaha. 

State  Board  of  Pharmacy. 

C.  J.  Smyth,  Attorney  General,  President. 
W.  F.  Porter,  Secretary  of  State,  Secretary. 
J.  B.  Meserve,  State  Treasurer. 

J.  F.  Cornell,  State  Auditor. 

Examiners. 

C.  M.  Clark.  Friend. 
A.  W.  Buthelt,  Grand  Island. 
H.  R.  Gering,  Plattsmouth. 
H.  H.  Barth.  Lincoln. 
Grllf.  .1.  Evans,  Hastings. 

State  Board  of  Transportation. 

John  F.  Cornell,  State  Auditor,  President. 

J.  V.  Wolfe,  Commissioner  Publl;  Lands  and  Buildings,  Secretary. 

J.  B.  Meserve,  State  Treasurer. 

C.  J.  Smyth,  Attorney  General. 

W.  F.  Porter,  Secretary  of  State. 

fJ.  W.  Edgerton. 
SECRETARIES   -{  J,  C.  Dahhnan. 

l^G.  L.  Laws. 
Miss  Nellie  Holland,  Stenographer. 

Zre1}raska  Fish  Commission. 

President,  W.  L.  May,  Fremont. 
Vice-President,  J.  S.  Kirkpatrick,  Lincoln. 
Secretary,  R.  S.  Oberfelder,  Sidney. 
Superintendent,  W.  T.  O'Brien,  South  Bend. 

State  Oil  Inspectors. 

Chi-f  Inspector,  J.  H.  Ti^dminsteu,  Eddyville. 
Deputy,  Wra.  Dai  ley,  Peru. 
Deputy,  F.  B.  Hibbard,  Irvington. 
Deputy,  Warwick  Saunders,  Columbus. 
Deputy,  Ed.  F.  Lyons,  Fairbury. 
Deputy,  Nels  O.  Alberts,  Saronville. 

Labor    Commissioner. 

Dkputy  Labor  Commissioner.  Sidney  J.  Kent. 
Clerk,  J.  A.  Edgerton. 


210  NEHRA8KA   NATIONAL    GUARDS. 


NEBRASKA  NATIONAL  GUARDS. 

RoBter  1897-98. 

Department   Staff. 

Adjutant  General.  Brig:.  Gen.  Patrick  H.  Harry,  Greeley. 

Quartermaster  and  Commissary  General,  Col.  William  G   Swan,  Tecumseli. 

Surgeon  General,  Col.  K.  Emmett  Giffen,  Lincoln. 

Inspector  General,  Col.  Nels  P.  Lundeeu,  York. 

Judge  Advocate  General,  Col.  Edwin  W.  Hale,  David  City. 

Chief  Clerk,  Adjt.  Genl's.  office,  Ira  J.  Ayers,  Lincoln. 

Personal  Staff. 

Special  Aid,  Major  Edmund  G.  Fechet,  6th  Cav.,  U.  S.  A. 
Aid-de-Carap,  Col.  James  H.  Peabody,  Omaha. 
Aid-de-Camp,  Col.  Fred  A.  Miller,  Lincoln. 
Aid-de-Camp  Col.  Lewis  F.  Wnlk^r,  Benkleman. 
Aid-de-Camp,  Col.  Herko  Koster,  Niobrara. 
Aid-de-Camp,  Col.  VVm.  F.  Cody,  \orth  Platte. 
Aid-de-Camp,  Col.  Emil  Hansen,  Archer. 
Aid-de-Carap,  Col.  W.  H.  Barnes,  Fairbury. 
Aid-de-Camp,  Col.  J.  M.  Burress,  Auburn. 
Aid-de-Camp,  Col.  John  G    Maher,  Chadron, 
Aid-de-Camp,  Col.  Walter  Moise,  Omaha. 


8TATE   INSTITUTIONS. 


STATE   INSTITUTIONS. 

Board  of  Education. 

W.  R.  Jackson,  State  Snperinteudent  of  Public  Instruction. 

J.  B.  Meserve,  State  Treasurer. 

B.  E.  B.  Kennedy,  Omaha. 

J.  S.  West,  Benl<leman. 

J.  E.  I.,ama8ter,  Tecumseh. 

J.  T.  Spencer,  Daliota  City. 

D.  D.  Martindale,  Niobrara. 

Insane  Hospital,  Lincoln. 

Superintendent,  Dr.  L.  J.  Abbott. 

First  Assistant  Physician,  Dr.  C.  E.  Coffln. 

Second  Assistant  Physician.  Dr.  Minerva  M.  Newbecker. 

Matron,  Mrs.  Mary  Thomas. 

Steward,  E.  C.  Bewick. 

Insane  Asylum,  Norfolk. 

Superintendent,  Dr.  G.  F.  Keiper. 
Physician,  Dr.  W.  H.  Barber. 
Steward,  C.  D.  Jenkins. 
Matron,  Mrs.  L.  Bowser. 

Hospital  for   Incurable   Insane,  Hasting's. 

superintendent,  Robert  Damerell. 
Physician,  Dr.  J.  T.  Steele. 
Steward,  A.  J.  Scott. 
Matron,  Miss  Jennie  E.  Larsen. 

State  Penitentiary^ 

Warden,  Geo.  W.  Leidigh. 
Deputy  Warden,  Thos.  Welch. 
Physician,  Dr.  H.  C.  Demaree. 
Chaplain,  Uev.  P.  W.  Howe. 

Boys'  Industrial  School,  Kearney, 

Superintendent,  C.  W.  Hoxie. 

Assistant  Superintendent,  James  Holland. 

Matron. ■ . 

Physician,   Dr.  J.  L.  Bennett. 

Chaplain,  Rev.  E.  Forrell. 

Book  Keeper  and  Clerk,  John  Brandt. 

Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home,  Grand  Island. 

Commandant,  John  W.  Wilson. 
Surgeon,  Dr.  S.  Sadler. 
Adju""  ant,  J.  H.  Powers. 
Mati  on,  Hannah  Zimraer. 


212  STATE  INSTITUTIONS. 


Institute  for  the  Blind,  Nebraska  City. 

Principal,  W.  A.  Jones. 

Physician,  Dr.  M,  A.  Carreker. 

Matron,  Caroline  E.  .Tones. 

Steward  and  Book  Keeper,  B.  S.  Littlefleld. 

Home  for  the  Friendless,  Lincoln, 

Superintendent,  Mrs.  F.  M.  Williams. 
Assistant  Superintendent,  Miss  Lizzie  Baldwin. 
Matron,  Mrs.  Mattie  E.  Wood. 
Physician,  Dr.  W.  M.  Knapp. 

Girl's  Industrial  School,  Geneva. 

Superintendent,  Hon.  B.  R.  B.  Weber. 
Matron,  Mrs.  E.  L.  Philbrook. 
I'HYsiciAN,  Dr.  T.  C.  Canine. 
Book  Keeper  and  Stkwaud,  J.  C.  Brennan. 

State  Normal  School  at  Peru. 

OFFICERS. 

B.  E.  B.  Kennedy,  Omaha,  President. 

W.  R.  Jackson,  Superintendent  of  Public  Inntruction,  Secretary. 

J.  B.  Meserve,  State  Treasurer,  Treasurer. 

Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute.  Omaha. 

Principal,  J.  A.  Gillespie,  A.  M. 
PHYsicrAN,  Dr.  J.  C.  Denise. 
Clekk,  U.  Clem  Deaver. 
Matron,  Helen  J.  Gillespie. 

Institute  for  Feeble  Minded,  Beatrice. 

Superintendent,  C.  P.  Fall. 

Steward  and  Book  Keeper,  C.  W.  Phelps. 

Matron,  Miss  Maggie  Wood. 

Woman's  Industrial  Home,  Milf  jrd. 

Superintendent,  Mrs.  Clara  S.  Carscadden. 
Physician,  Julia  E.  Teele. 
Matron,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Kent. 
Book  Keeper,  Pearl  Carscadden. 

Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home,  Milford. 

Commandant,  J.  M.  Fowler. 
SuR(JEON,  Dr.  S.  P.  Tracy. 
Matron,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Ferguson. 


8TATK   ASSOCIATIONS. 


STATE  ASSOCIATIONS. 

STATE  AOBICUZ.TUSAI.  SOCIETY. 

Officers  for  1897. 

PRKSinENT,  Milton  Doolittle,  North  Platte. 
First  Vice  Puesident,  J.  N.  Van  Duyn,  Wilber. 
Second  Vice  President,  J.  B.  McDowell,  Fairbury, 
Treasurer,  Edmund  Mclntyre,  Seward. 
Secretary,  Robert  W.  Furnas,  Brownville. 


Board  of  Manasfers. 

J.  B.  Dinsmore,  Chairman,  Sutton. 
S.  C.  Bassett,  Gibbon. 
W.  A.  Poynter,  Albion. 
E.  L.  Vance,  Pawnee  City. 
E.  A.  Barnes.  Grand  Island. 

STATE  HOBTICUI^TTTBAi;  SOCIETY. 
Officers  for  1897. 

President,  G.  A.  Marshall,  Arlington. 

Vice  President,  C.  A.  Uodkinson,  Lincoln. 

Second  Vice  President,  J.  W.  Ilesser,  Plattsmouth. 

Secretary,  C.  A.  Barnard,  Table  Kock. 

Treasurer,  Peter  Younger  Jr.,  Geneva. 

Director,  E.  F.  Stephenson,  Crete. 

Director,  J.  VV.  Stephens,  North  Bend. 

Director,  J.  P.  Dunlap,  Dwight. 

Annual  Meetings,  January  each  year  and  Mid-Sammer  meeting. 

NEBRASKA  DAIRYMEN'S    ASSOCIATION. 

President,  F.  H.  Vaughn,  Fremont. 
Vice  President,  J.  W.  Bash,  Battle  Creek. 
Secretary,  S.  C.  Bassett,  Gibbon. 

NEBRASKA  SWINE  BREEDERS'  ASSOCIATION. 

President,  Z.  S.  Bronson,  Waverly, 
Vice  President,  L.  E.  Mahan,  Malcomb. 
Vice  President,  E.  E.  Day,  Weeping  Water. 
Vice  President,  George  E.  Fenley,  Geneva. 
Secretary,  Charles  Dawson,  Endicott. 
Treasurer,  J.  L.  Barton,  Greenwood. 
Annual  meeting  held  at  state  fair  each  year. 

STATE  BEEKEEPER'S  ASSOCIATION, 


President,  E.  Whitcomb,  Friend. 
Skqbbtaby,  L.  D.  Stilson,  York. 


STATE  ASSOCIATIONS, 


STATE  FOUI.TSY  ASSOCIATION. 

Pbebident,  W,  H.  Haven,  Fremont. 
Vice  President,  Dr.  A.  Gaiseu,  Tecumseh. 
Secretary,  I.  L.  Lyman,  Lincoln. 
Treasurer,  E.  E.  Greer,  Beatrice. 

Board  of  Manasfers. 

Charles  Ross,  Omaha. 

O.  E.  Gaines,  Elk  City. 

C.  A.  Cook,  Salem. 

E.  O.  Spencer,  Lincoln. 

L.  L.  Fisher,  Geneva. 

E.  A.  Pegler,  Superintendent,  Lincoln. 

STATE  TEACHERS'  ASSOCIATION. 

President,  J.  W.  Crabtree,  Beatrice. 
Secretary,  L.  U.  Stoner,  Valentine. 
Treasurer,  C.  K.  Atkinson,  Fairbury. 


UNIVERSITY    OF   NEBRASKA. 


UNIVERSITY  OF  NEBRASKA    LINCOLN. 

Board  of  Beg-euts. 

Charles  H.  Morrill,  Fresideut,  Lincoln. 

E.  A.  Hadle.v,  Scotia. 

C.  W.  Kaley,  Red  Cloud. 

Charles  Weston,  Hay  Springs. 

Thomas  Rawlings,  Wakefield. 

H.  L.  Goold,  Ogalalla. 

J,  Stuart  Dales,  Secretary.  Lincoln. 

FACULTY  BY  DEFASTMENTS. 

Ag-ricnltnre. 

George  E.  MacLean,  Ph.D.,  LL.D. 

T.  Lyttleton,  Lyon,  Assistant  Professor  of  Agriculture. 


American  History, 


H.  W.  Caldwell,  Professor. 
J.  A.  Barrett,  Instructor. 
Frank  Brown.  Division  Assistant. 


Cora  Parker,  Instructor. 
Henrietta  M.  Brock,  Instructor. 


Art. 


Botany. 

C.  E.  Bessey,  Professor. 
F.  E.  Clements,  Laboratory  Assistant. 
F.  A.  Rydberg,  Laboratory  Assistant. 
C.  L.  Shear,  Laboratory  Assistant. 
Edna  L.  Hyatt,  Botanical  Artist. 

Chemistry. 

H.  H.  Nicholson,  Professor. 

John  White,  Instructor. 

S.  Avery,  Instructor. 

Rosa  Bouton,  Instructor. 

Herman  A.  Senter,  Instructor. 

Robert  S.  Hiltner,  Laboratory  Assistant. 

E.  E.  Nicholson,  Laboratory  Assistant. 

Ward  Hildreth,  Storekeeper. 


Civil  Engineering*. 


O.  V.  p.  stout.  Adjunct  Professor. 
W.  R.  Browne,  Jr..  Instructor. 
G.  R.  Chatburn,  Instructor. 


UNIVEB81TY  OF   NEBRASKA. 


Electrical  Eug-iueering-. 


11.  B.  Owens,  Associate  Professor. 

W.  R.  Browne,  Jr.,  Instructor. 

E.  Podlesak.  Electrician. 

C.  A.  Skinner,  Laboratory  Assistant. 

E.  N.  Corbin,  Laboratory  Assistant. 


Elocution. 


Mary  D.  Manning,  Instructor. 


Eugrlish. 


J.  W.  Adams,  Professor. 

E.  A.  Tburber,  Instructor. 

Prosser  H.  Frey,  Instructor. 

W.  O.  Jones,  Journalism. 

Frank  Browu,  Division  Assistant. 

Louise  Pound,  Theme  Reader. 

Ray  E.  Manley,  Division  Assistant. 


Eug-lish  Literature. 


L.  A.  Sherman,  Professor. 
H.  C.  Peterson,  Instructor. 
Louise  Pound,  Division  Assistant. 


Entomolosry, 


Lawrence  Bruner,  Professor, 
W.  D.  Hunter,  Assistant. 


European  History, 


F.  M.  Fling,  Professor. 

C.  A.  E.  Holmes,  Division  Assistant. 

Jessie  Law,  Division  Assistant. 


Geolog-y. 

K.  H.  Barbour,  Professor. 

J.  P.  Rowe,  Laboratory  Assistant. 

German  Langruag-es. 

Laurence  Fossler,  Professor. 

P.  B.  Burnet,  Instructor. 

Amanda  H.  Heppner,  Division  Assistant. 

Greek. 

J.  T.  Lees,  Professor. 

W.  F.  Dann,  Adjunct  Professor, 

Josepliine  Tremain,  Instructor, 

Horticulture. 
F.  W.  Card,  Associate  Professor. 


UNIVERSITY  OP  MBBRA8KA.  217 


G.  E.  Barber,  Professor, 

V.  M.  Johnsou,  Adjunct  Professor. 

Josephine  Tremain,  Instructor. 

J.  T.  House,  Instructor. 

Alice  C.  Hunter,  Assistant. 

W.  L.  AVestermann,  Division  Assistant. 

Iiaw. 

M.  B.  Heese,  Dean. 

C.  A.  Robbins,  Instructor. 

H.  H.  Wilson,  Lecturer,  Secretary  of  Faculty. 

Samuel  Maxwell,  Fremont,  Lecturer. 

W.  W.  Giffen,  Pawnee  City,  Lecturer. 

W.  H.  Munxer,  Fremont,  Lecturer, 

Frank  Irvine,  Omaha,  I^ecturer. 

Joseph  R.  Webster,  Lecturer. 

W.  S.  Summers,  Lecturer. 

B.  F.  Good,  Lecturer. 
J.  C.  Watson,  Lecturer. 

J.  C.  Watson,  Nebraska  City,  Lecturer. 
Jacob  Fawcett,  Omaha,  Lecturer. 

Iiibrary. 

Mary  L.  Jones,  Assistant  Librarian. 

Mary  E.  Bobbins,  Cataloguer. 

Florence  S.  Smith,  Assistant  Cataloguer. 

May  Hopper,  Assistant. 

Nellie  J.  Compton,  Assistant. 

Annie  Fossler,  Assistant. 

Manual  Training*. 

C.  R.  Richards.  Adjunct  Professor. 
Cora  Parker,  Instructor. 

W.  B.  Hampsen,  Instructor. 

Mathematics. 

E.  W.  Davis,  Professor. 

H.  E.  Hitchcock,  Emeritus  Professor. 

T.  M.  Hodgeman,  Associate  Professor. 

A.  L.  Candy,  Instructor. 

G.  R.  Chatburu,  Instructor. 

J.  J.  Pershing,  Instructor. 

Juergen  Albers,  Division  Assistant. 

L.  C.  Walker,  Division  Assistant. 

W.  E.  Brook,  Division  Assistant. 

T.  W.  Howie,  Division  Assistant. 

Military  Science. 

Capt.  J.  F.  Guilfoyle,  Commandant. 

D.  F.  Easterday,  Band  Master. 


218  UNIVERSITY   OF  NEBRASKA. 

Museum. 


E.  H.  Barbour,  Curator. 
Carrie  A,  Barbour,  Assistant. 


Music. 


Willard  Kimball,  Conservatory  Director;  Instructor  Pipe  Organ. 
Martinus  Sieveking,  Instructor  Piano. 
Susie  Schofleld,  Instructor  Piano. 
Emily  M.  Perlcins,  Instructor  Piano. 
John  Randolpli,  Instructor  Voice. 

August  Hagenow,  Instructor  Stringed  Instruments,  and  Leader  of  Univer- 
sity Orchestra. 
Emma  Hagenow,  Instructor  Stringed  Instruments. 

D.  F.  Easterday    Instructor  Wind  Instruments,  and  Leader  of  University 

Cadet  Band. 
Mrs.  P.  V.  M.  Raymond,  Instructor  University  Choruses. 
F.  M.  Plauque,  Instructor  Guitar  and  Mandolin. 

E.  L.  Mouk,  Piano  Tuning. 
Clara  Spencer,  Librarian. 

Fhilosopliy. 

Professor. 

E.  L,  Hinman,  Instructor. 

R.  C.  Bentley,  Laboratory  Assistant. 

Physical  Trainingf. 

R.  A.  Clark,  Adjunct  Professor,  Director  of  Gymnasium, 
Kate  Wilder,  Instructor. 
Anne  L.  Barr,  Instructor. 

Physics. 

DeWitt  B.  Brace,  Professor. 
Burton  E.  Moore,  Instructor. 
J.  E.  Almy,  Laboratory  Assistant. 
W.  E.  Brook,  Laboratory  Assistant. 
Rachael  Corr,  Laboratory  Assistant. 
M.  E.  Hiltner,  Laboratory  Assistant. 

F.  S.  Philbrick,  Laboratory  Assistant. 
H.  E.  Reagan.  Laboratory  Assistant. 
D.  T.  Moore,  Demonstrator. 

J.  Chowins,  Mechanic. 
Bert  Spencer,  Storekeeper. 

'  Political  Science. 

W.  G.  L.  Taylor,  Adjunct  Professor. 

Boinauce  Iiangfuaffes. 

A.  H.  Edgren,  Professor. 

Clara  Conklin,  Adjunct  Professor. 

Sanskrit  and  Philolog'y. 

A.  H.  Edgren,  Instructor. 


UNIVERSITY   OF  NEBBA8KA. 


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Zoology. 

H,  B.  Ward,  Associate  Professor 

R.  A.  Clark,  Instructor. 

R.  H.  Wolcott,  Instructor. 

W.  C,  Hall,  Laboratory  Assistant. 

United  States  Experiment  Station. 

T.  L.  Lyons,  Director. 

A.  T.  Peters.  Investigator  of  Animal  Diseases. 

G.  D.  Swezey,  Meteorolo>j:i8t, 

G.  A.  Loveland,  Weather  Observer. 

And  six  members  of  the  University  Faculty  as  AVorking  Staff. 

OBADOATES  OF  THE  STATE  UNIVERSITY. 


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It  is  estimated  that  more  than  5,000  young  people  have  received  instruc- 
tion in  this  University  during  the  twenty  years  since  Its  formal  opening. 

The  Building's  and  Grounds  of  the  State  University. 

University  Hall,  erected  in  1869-70,  at  a  cost  of  about  $140,000,  de- 
frayed out  of  the  proceeds  of  the  sale  of  lots  belonging  to  the  site  of  the 
city  of  Lincoln. 

Chemical  Laboratory,  erected  in  1885-86,  at  a  cost  of  about  $35,000,  of 
which  sum  $25,000  were  defrayed  out  of  University  funds  and  $10,000  out  of 
State  funds. 

Grant  Memorial  Hall,  erected  in  1888,  at  a  cost  of  $20,000,  of  which 
$5,000  were  defrayed  out  of  University  funds  and  $15,000  out  of  State  funds. 

Nebraska  Hall,  erected  in  1888-9,  at  a  cost  of  $50,000,  all  defrayed  from 
University  funds. 

The  Boiler  House,  erected  in  1889,  at  a  cost  of  $12,000.  out  of  Univer- 
sity funds. 

Electrical  Tower  House,  erected  in  1891,  at  a  cost  of  $5,500,  out  of 
University  funds. 

Library  Building,  the  north  wmg  erected  in  1892,  at  a  cost  of  $37,000  out 
of  University  fuuds.     When  complete  will  cost  $100,000. 


XTNIVESSITY  OF  NfiBRASKA. 


The  Campus,  of  Iwelve  acres,  was  reserved  from  State  lands  for  Uni- 
versity purposes  when  the  city  was  laid  out.    It  is  now  valued  at  $250,000. 

The  College  Farm  (including  the  Experiment  Station  farm),  was 
secured  by  the  exchange  of  State  land  and  the  payment  of  about  $20,000  out 
of  State  funds.     This  property  is  now  valued  at  about  $..'50,000. 

Value  of  University  Property. 

University  campus,  $250,000;  buildings  thereon  (present  value).  $268,000. 
Libraries,  apparatus,  equipment,  etc.,  $l.iO,500.  Steam  heating  plant, 
$25,000.  College  farm,  with  buildings,  apparatus,  stock,  etc.,  $275,000. 
Total  valuation,  $978,500. 

State  University  Tax. 

On  a  valuation  of  $500  the  tax  is  but  18%  cents.  On  a  valvation  of  $1,000 
the  tax  is  but  37!^  cents.    On  a  ya'.uationof  $10,000  the  tax  is  but  $o.75. 


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Theo.  Smith. 


222 


COMPARATIVE   STATEMENT  RELATIVE  TO  SENATE. 


COMPARATIVE  STATEMENT 

OF  THE 
NUMBER  OF  OFFICERS  AND  EMPLOYES, 

AND  THE 

SALARY   AND  WAGES  PAID 

DURING  THE 

2oth,  2ist,  22nd  and  23rd  Sessions 

OF  THE 

NEBRASKA  LEGISLATURE, 

Compiled  From  The  Auditor's  Bi- Annual  Report. 

SENATE. 


TITLE  OF  OFFICERS  OR 
EMPLOYES. 


NO.  OF 

EMPLOYES 


SALARY  AND   WAGES   PAID. 


Lieutenant  Governor... 
Secretary  t<«  Lieut    Gov, 

I^resident  of  Senate 

Secretary  

Secretary  Pro  tem 

Assistant  Secretaries  — 
liookkeepers  ct  typewriters 

Stenographers      

Sergeant -at- Arms 

Chaplain 

rostMaster  and  Assist'nts 

Door-keepers 

Eng.  &  Enrolling  Clerk 

Committee  Clerks 

Senator's  Clerks 

Clerk  to  Auditor 

Clerk  to  Secretary  of  State 

Copy  Clerks 

Bill  Clerks 

Janitors 

(Custodians 

Messengers 

Pages 

Mail  Carriers 

l^roof  Readers 

Copy    Holders 

Watclimen 

Firemen 

Laborer 

Expert  Accountant  ... 
Special  Sergeant-at-A  ms 


$  609  60$  680  40 


13 


Total 122 114 117  68  $24965  60  |249(U;  40  $26764  40  $1 691 8  81 


180 
600 

1145 
612 

546 
270 
546 
819 
6240 
4020 


81 

819 
3162 

546 
1551 
1228  50 

385  50 

306 

378 

522 


231 
600 

1620 

789 

261 

534 

265 

513 

648 
2913 

234 
6635  50 

231 


498 
1935 
1053 
1104 
1740  50 

261 

678 

678 

468 

222 

174 


500 
600 


80$  628  00 


1424 
452 
321 

855 

306  60 

564 

573 
5404  50 
3623 


705 

331  50 

714 
2266 
1266 
1954  50 
1510  50 

270 

564 

576 

795 

270 


568  00 
44 
1790 

500 

381 

867 

264 

567 

432 
2004 
2538 


411 

890  31 
1683 

351 
1207  50 

264 

354  75 

336  75 

400  50 

432 


230 
60 


COMPARATIVE  STATEMENT   RELATIVE  TO   HOUSE. 


223 


COriPARATIVE  STATEHPNT 

OF  THE 
.nJMBEB  OF  OFFICERS  AND  EMPLOYES 

AND    THE 

SALARY  AND  WAGES  PAID. 

DURING  THE 

20th,  Slst,  S2nd  and  S3rd  Sessions. 

OF  THE 

NEBRASKA  LEGISLATURE, 

Compiled  From  Tlie  Auditor's  Bi- Annual  Report. 

HOUSE. 


TITLE  OF  OFFICERS  OR 

NO.  OF. 
EMPLOYES. 

SALARY  OR  WAGES  PAID. 

EMPLOYES. 

1 

1    1 

11 

1 

i 

1 

1 

Speaker 

1 
1 

4 
2 

2 

26 
19 
3 

1 

1 

8 
2 
13 
2 
2 
2 
1 

1 

1 

li    1 

1 
1 
4 
3 
1 
2 
2 
11 
6 
2 

1 
1 

9 
3 
15 
4 

1 
2 
3 

1 

1 
1 
3 

1    180 

600 
1881 
630 
258 
615 
945 
5484 
4285 
484 
249 

480 
2229 
474 
1377 
753 
549 
476 
261 

243 

1    231 

600 
2173 

540 

231 

552 

756 
7561  50 
5178 

828 

300 

2.'J8 

748 
4446 
3192 
3018  50 
1218 

510 

827  75 

729 

186 
60 

192 

201 

258 

442  50 

273 

?    216 

600 

2356 

690 

213 

480 

441 

364  J, 

2049 

642 

243 
504 

2553 
681 

1316 
633 
423 
273 
561 

354 
216 

204 
729 

1    180 

600 

Chief  Clerk 

1 

5 

2 

1 

2 

3 

31 

25 

3 

1 

1 

3 

18 

14 

2 
3 
3 

1 
1 
1 

1 

3 

1 

1 
4 
3 
1 
2 
2 
20 
12 
3 

1 
2 

12 
4 

14 
2 
3 
1 
4 

3 

1 

11 
3 

Assistant  Clerks 

2300 

Sergeant-at-Arms. . , . 

710  6"^ 

Chaplain 

204 

Postmaster  and  Assistant. 
Door-keepers 

514  50 
453  38 

Engr'ng  and  Enr'l'g  Cl'ks 
Committee  Clerks 

2467  16 
571  60 

Bill  Clerks 

638  99 

Clerk  to  Sec'y  of  State. . . . 
Clerk  to  Speaker.     ., 

171  75 

Messengers 

204 

Janitors 

1828  12 

Custodians     

729  93 

Pages 

1569  15 

Proof  Reader,  Copy  Holder 
Mail  Carriers 

760  50 

282  00 

Engineer  and  Fireman. . . . 
Watchmen  and  Guards... 
Book-keeper 

457  50 
837  00 

Stenographers 

Time-keeper 

331  30 

Clerk  Auditor's  Ottice.... 
Supt.  of  Engrossing  Room 
Elevator  Boys. .     .   . 

Special  Sergeant-at-Arms. 
Carpenter 

189 

Clerk  to  recount  ballots. . 
Typewriters 

33 
590  62 

Totals 

96 

165 

110 

76 

?22453 

$36510  25 

120025 

$16624  02 

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